Word: politicians
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...rebuffed. The Soviet Embassy reportedly sent an attache to urge Premier Chiang to join China's Kuomintang Party to the Communist International and appoint Chinese Communist General Chu Teh to high command in the Chinese Army. The Generalissimo was further harassed by news from Hankow that leading Kuomintang Politician Wang Ching-wei had manifestoed to the Chinese Government: "If you want peace, you had better make peace before the fall of Nanking. What says our ancient proverb: 'It is a humiliation to make peace with the enemy under the city walls...
Authorities who have agreed to attend the meetings and take part in the discussions are: Joseph C. Green, of the Department of State; Russell C. Lefling-well, member of J. P. Morgan and Company; Frank L. Polk, acting Secretary of State 1918-19; Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., '09, author and politician; William H. Standley, former chief of Naval Operations; Raymond Gram Swing, correspondent in Berlin during the War; and Oswald Garrison Villard '93, former editor of the Nation...
...Marx Dormoy a delicate task. He must explain before the bar of French public opinion the meaning of large quantities of small arms and munitions seized by the police recently in various parts of the Republic (TIME, Nov. 29), and he must not seem to be simply a Left politician attempting to smear the Right...
...President, the patronage arrangements for which in previous administrations the Speaker had been a sort of clearing house began instead to be handled much more directly by the White House. Thus the job that, after his 20 years in the House as an able if not spectacular Southern politician, came to William Bankhead last year was by no means as consequential as it had been. If, in the first years of the New Deal, the Speaker found it harder to run the House, there was also from the President's point of view, less need...
Such an outburst by the Spanish Lenin loomed this week as of capital importance to Anarchists, Socialists, Trotskyists and Stalinists as well as to neutral observers of Leftist and Rightist Spain. Defense Minister and Boss Indalecio Prieto of the Leftist Government is in origin a Spanish middle-class politician of the old school. That he should be bossing a regime which in Socialist eyes is featured today by a ''reign of terror," secret police activity as in Russia and a betrayal of the "revolu-tion"* as originally conceived by such Spanish Leftists as Largo Caballero, provided Europe last...