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Died. General Tsao Kun, 76, onetime (1923-24) President of China; after long illness; in Tientsin. An oldtime war lord, he lost China's Presidency during a civil war, has since worked against his successors, was regarded as probable choice to head the new puppet state Japan hopes to establish in North China...
...spring of 1919, Albert Cohen, onetime clerk, was a man of power. Under the name of Béla Kun, squat and bristling Clerk Cohen was the Communist dictator of Hungary. After four months he was overthrown by Admiral Nicholas Horthy, present Hungarian strong man, finally ended up in Moscow, became a Soviet citizen. Since then, he has built up a reputation as the world's "No. 1 Communist Germ Spreader." He has been accused of fomenting Red intrigues in Hungary, organizing the extreme left wing of Loyalist support in Spain, encouraging the growth of French Communism. Brazil...
Last week the melodramatic Kun saga took a new turn when unofficial reports had it that far from skittering hither & yon plotting the world revolution, the veteran bogeyman had incurred the displeasure of Soviet officials, who arrested him, charged him with communicating with Trotskyists during his recent rumored journeys to Spain, locked him up in jail...
Died. Baron Frederic Koranyi, 66 Hungarian statesman and diplomat; Minister of Finance (1919) who reorganized the Hungarian financial administrate: after the Soviet regime of Bela Kun; in Budapest...
...ship to leave Manhattan. England's Black Country, faced with "the great calamity of peace"; Paris of the Peace Conference; Italy, with new ruins to add to its old; the meeting of the Second International at Berne; devastated Serbia, machine-gun fire in starving Vienna, Budapest under Bela Kun's Communist regime-all these she saw and reported. The one meeting she refused was an interview with Queen Marie of Rumania. Once more in the U. S., her active indignation sent her into the great steel strike of 1919, then into organizing shirtmakers for the militant Amalgamated Clothing...