Word: revolutionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WORLD REVOLUTION CALLED AT SHANGHAI*
Lurid paraphrases of this headline were carried by scores of newspapers above a lead which gave in indirect discourse a proclamation by General Pai Tsung-hsi, the Nationalist commander in immediate control of Shanghai. His actual words were, in part: "The Chinese people must not insult the foreigners or destroy...
Thus what amounted to a vague expression of hope as to the course of future events, was transformed by headliners into a proclamation of immediate world revolution. Headline to the contrary, one and not "more Yanks"2 were killed: Headlines to the contrary, no white women were "outraged"3 in...
Meanwhile, in London, Foreign Minister Sir Austen Chamberlain barely deigned an allusion to the phrase "world revolution" while assuring the House of Commons that Britons were adequately protected in Shanghai. When a certain newsgatherer popped a question about "world revolution" at U. S. Secretary of State Kellogg, in Washington, it...
Marines of all the great powers stood guard about the international city of Shanghai, last week, protecting its 40,000 white inhabitants from the defeated Shantung soldiers and the victorious Nationalist troops fighting sporadically in the Chinese city of Shanghai, recently captured (TIME, March 28) by the Nationalists. ¶ Routed...