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...decided that any rearrangement of the Council would be interpreted abroad as a symptom of weakness. The election of Trotzky referred to last week was to the Federal Congress of Soviets. A report from Moscow, via Berlin, stated that Ivan Stalin was using Trotzky as a lever to oust Grigori Zinoviev, chief of the Third Internationale. Stalin and Zinoviev were formerly fast friends and led the recent attacks against Trotzky that led to his political fall (TIME, Jan. 26). It now appears that Stalin (backed by Alexei Rykov, Chairman of the Council,* Karl Radek, notorious Bolshevik propagandist, and some others...
...within a year 1,000 patients were once more receiving treatment. When it was rumored that the General was about to return to the U. S., a pathetic peition signed by more than 1,000 lepers begged him to stay. Meanwhile, the Filipino politicians were trying to oust him. Culion was made an issue, and the Filipino Legislature cut the Culion appropriations by one-third...
...Premier mounted the tribunal. Silence of death fell upon the Senate. In clear tones, he defended his fiscal policy, accused former Governments of causing disguised inflation by contracting loans and exhausting the lending resources of the country. He complained of a conspiracy to oust him from office and ended on the note: "I have done my duty. In judging me, you must recognize that I have done my duty." He stepped from the tribunal...
Whose Right to Oust? It seems strange that a country should live and grow under a great ordinance for more than a century and a quarter and at the end of that time not be sure what parts of that ordinance mean. Yet such is the case of the U. S. For example, in the case of amendments to the Constitution. That document says that amendments be- come effective when adopted by Congress and "ratified by three-fourths of the States." Apparently rejection does not count; only ratification. But suppose that a state ratifies and then reverses itself?either before...
...oust Trotzky from the War Council...