Word: manifesto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose heads he once set a price, trust him. This week, in a peculiarly Chinese maneuver, the Kuomintang's Central Executive Committee summoned Generalissimo Chiang as President of the Executive Yuan (Premier) again, reducing Premier H. H. Kung to vice president. Then it issued a four-point manifesto, the most emphatic point of which was a refusal to join any anti-Comintern agreement...
...Comintern manifesto declared that "the ruling classes of Britain, France and Germany are waging war for world domination," while hotheaded Georgi Dimitroff, Bulgarian-born Secretary of the Comintern, scape-goat-elect of the Reichstag fire and personal enemy of Field Marshal Hermann Göring, adopted a "plague-o'-both-your-houses" attitude. In a signed article in the quarterly Communist International, Tovarish Dimitroff performed the neatest logical trick of the week: he called Germany the original aggressor in World War II, said that after the Nazis signed their famed non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union the aggressors...
Meanwhile, in the U. S. S. R. Bolshevists staged a bang-up three-day celebration of the 22nd anniversary of the Communist revolution. The Communist Third International blasted forth with a strident manifesto which called upon workers of the world to unite and "go against those who favor continuation of imperialistic war." Nothing wrong was found with Nazi Germany, but the manifesto singled out for special tongue-lashings the U. S., which "repeals the embargo on the export of arms to secure huge profits to the kings of the munitions industry"; Britain and France, for "keeping half the world...
This week Mrs. Baruch published a book (Parents and Teachers Go to School -Scott, Foresman & Co., $3) for parents and teachers, reporting what she had learned as amateur and professional, bumbling manifesto, her book sticks to specific cases, tells in detail how her nursery school straightened out many a little boy and girl, many a mother and father...
...late August he wrote a pamphlet How to Win the War. He was primarily responsible for a Sept. 2 manifesto declaring British Communists were ready to join the war against German Fascism. But that pamphlet was later withdrawn, and on Oct. 7 the Party's Central Committee printed a "correction" of the September manifesto. Britain, France and Poland were blamed equally with Germany for starting an "imperialist war." Last week Secretary Pollitt lost his job, although not his Party membership...