Word: rayna
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...attempted Communist Revolutions in China between 1927 and 1930. The figure of Borodin looms large as the greatest man, to Sheean's mind, in the whole decade, Lenin excepted. Then there are Mme. Sun-Yat-Sen, widow of the Chinese hero, Eugene Chen, and the fiery, red-haired Rayna Prohme, all of whom Sheean knew with varying degrees of intimacy. Their failure to put through the revolution Sheean ascribes to the strength of foreign imperialism, British and American in particular...
...philosophy, the "long view" of the theoretical Marxist who regarded immediate events as meaningless unless related to other events in the past and future. Friendship with Borodin, and with Sun Yat-sen's widow, helped ruin Sheean as a practicing journalist. A U. S. girl named Rayna Prohme played the dominant part in the sea-change...
Contact with the "ideas" behind the Chinese Revolution made Sheean into a sort of Bruce Lockhart, both onlooker and participant. Unable, in spite of Borodin and Rayna, to make up his mind about Communism, Sheean wavered. But he began to take a hand in the processes of history, attempted to bring T. V. Soong, brother of Madame Sun Yatsen, from Shanghai to Hankow, offered to smuggle Fanny Borodin out of Peking. No longer the impassive newshawk, Sheean, when he covered the Jewish-Arab conflict in the Holy Land, broke down completely, took sides violently, and learned conclusively that...