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...that strange, lusty, religio-communistic sect, the Doukhobors. Needing settlers, Canada offered them asylum and 450,000 acres of land in 1899. Descended from Tartars, bandied about for almost a century from Tauris to Transcaucasia to Georgia to Cyprus, the Doukhobors-over 4,000 of them-arrived in Canada leaderless and penniless despite the help given them by British Quakers and by Count Leo Tolstoy who donated the royalties from his novel, Resurrection. Peter Verigin, the Doukhobor leader, was in Siberia but three years later he was released, went to Canada. Thereafter his flock grew numerous and prospered. Their canneries...
...followed by his Cabinet and by so many Deputies that adjournment was expected and some Deputies went home. Instead debate was resumed in the gray dawn and at 6:03 a. m. (while M. Herriot & Cabinet were at the Elysee presenting their resig nations to President Albert Lebrun) the leaderless Chamber voted again, this time on a motion jointly submitted by its Finance and Foreign Affairs Committee...
...followed 1921, the people lost faith in the leaders of the revolution. They refused to believe that the fault lay with the writers of the peace treaties, and they came to think of Germany as the innocent victim of the war. Had they turned to the National Socialist Party, leaderless though it was, they would have done better, for at least "its roots lie deep in the nation." Instead old and young have looked to the Junkers, experienced in rule, reactionary, and, like the Bourbons, learning nothing and forgetting nothing...
...difference between the Japanese and Chinese armies now engaged about Shanghai is the difference between a civilized disciplined nation and a barbaric leaderless tribe of people", Colonel O. L. Spaulding, professor of Military Science and Tactics, said...
...Generals Shih Yu-san and Sun Tien-ying moved their combined forces (110,000 men) across Honan Province, threatening the juncture of the Lung-Hai and Peiping-Hankow railways, then started north through Hopei Province, apparently bound for the port of Tientsin. Nationalist Manchurian troops along this front were leaderless, since Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, Vice Commander-in-Chief of the Nationalist Army, Navy and Air Force, was in a Peiping hospital, officially with pneumonia, which was rumored to be really a bullet-hole inflicted by his own bodyguard, bought off by the Cantonese...