Word: propagandists
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...Chinese politics everything is indirect. Leaders of the present conservative Nanking Government got their start as revolutionaries in Canton. Openly accepting Russian gold and assisted by Moscow's most effective propagandist. Comrade Michael Borodin, they launched a war of conquest which swept across all China (TIME, Sept. 7, 1925 et seq.). Their innate wisdom caused them to break with Moscow at exactly the right moment. Triumphantly installed at Nanking, they washed their hands of everything Communist, sent Comrade Borodin packing, appealed for recognition by all the Great Powers and gradually obtained...
...Harvard Liberal Club's recent affiliation with the National Student League, and its promise of study groups to supplement its propagandist work, forecast a definite departure from the policies of similar organizations in the past. In contrast with fragmentary consideration of unrelated problems and desultory attempts to influence Harvard students and the federal government, the Club has finally committed itself to a coherent program of liberalist activity...
Since the first horse, scarcely larger than a fox, went scampering about in America in which were no humans to tame him, American horses have had their ups & downs. Automobiles brought them a down; Depression has given them an up. Wayne Dinsmore of Chicago, secretary and propagandist of the Horse Association of America, announced last week that the horse is once more the chief source of horsepower on Mid-western farms...
...instituting such an organization, its founders have avoided most of the objections to the loudly ballyhooed avowedly propagandist Model Leagues. Making no serious attempt at nationalistic representation and wasting a good share of their time in futile bickering over the details of predetermined conclusions, those gatherings have become little other than a social function. The new Harvard League, through its representative character should assure some expression of national sentiment; its permanence will encourage more serious study of international difficulties than does the distant and temporary character of its unhappy prototype...
...basis of relative merits and defects, the Model League of Nations would experience difficulty in justifying its existence. Its confinement to the intellectual east, a section of the country almost unanimous in its advocacy of American entrance into the League, will nullify whatever propagandist powers it may have, except for antagonizing opponents to the League. As a means for enlivening current events and broadening college thinking on international topics it offers less advantages and more possibilities for distorted conceptions than does the average debate...