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Dates: during 1930-1939
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China's hard-pressed Premier, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, had more of his usual bad news last week. Japanese money and arms had induced Mongolian Prince Teh to proclaim an "independent" state in Inner Mongolia bordering the Chinese Great Wall. To the north Mongolian soldiers and Japanese planes forced the surrender of the Mongol city of Changpeh in Chahar Province, laid the groundwork for another independent State bordering the "Autonomous Government of North China" hatched last November by the Japanese Army (TIME. Dec. 2). As Japan chipped away at Generalissimo Chiang's China (see map) it became a matter...
...Soviet Government cannot disclaim connection with the Comintern and its revolutionary program in South America, for Joseph Stalin opened and closed the last Congress of the Comintern. . . . We have proof that Minkin* was organizing a revolution in Uruguay for next February or March." In Moscow the official Bolshevik news-organ, Izvestia, promptly announced to the world proletariat that Uruguay had attempted to ''blackmail" Russia by threatening to break off relations unless Montevideo was given a large Soviet order for Uruguayan cheese. This was supposed to have stung Dictator Stalin into assuming a defiant attitude-i. e.. Millions...
...Chiang has quietly been setting up the biggest military and aviation base in China, 850 miles from his capital of Nanking. Szechwan's one liability is that it is surrounded by great geologic faults, is a favorite playground for earthquakes. Last week to Generalissimo Chiang in Nanking went news that last fortnight Earthquake had played through Szechwan in earnest...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...
...Europe aboard the S. S. American Importer. On that slender foundation of fact the U. S. Press last week reared as enormous a fabric of conjecture, rumor, implication and denunciation as has been built in nearly two thousand years on the 67-word story of the Flight into Egypt.* News of the Lindbergh flight broke in the final Monday edition of the New York Times, on the streets at 4 a. m. The New York American, morning Hearstpaper, cribbed the Times' copyright story, slapped it on the front page of an extra edition. The rest of Manhattan...