Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further Soviet planes were being delivered now, according to Hankow officials. China's fighting pilots are now about half Chinese, half Russian, with more Chinese pilots rapidly training under Soviet instructors...
...Britain, was further unstandardized last week by the addition of several German light bombers and a squadron of French pursuit planes. The Generalissimo has disbanded, dismissed the U. S., French and other foreign free-lance pilots of the famed Chinese Fourteenth Bombardment Squadron, today has enough Chinese and Russian airmen...
Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, warmly supported by Chinese and Russian Communists (see above), announced last week that he has just received the adherence of the Chinese Nazi Party. Explained a colleague of the Generalissimo as correspondents looked blank: "The activities of the Chinese Nazi Party have been concealed from the general public during the few years of its existence. Its Führer is Carson Chang who was educated in Japan and Germany." Führer Chang's brother, Chang Kai-ngau, is the Chinese Communications Minister...
...little-known expatriate life of Mexico City. By comparison with the post-War Bohemianism of Mexico City he describes, Greenwich Village during the same period seems as innocent as a kindergarten. Mexico City swarmed with shady refugees from Europe, was headquarters for big plotters like the fabulous Russian Borodin (alias Ginzberg), with whom Beals used to quarrel over Realpolitik and eugenics. Borodin, claims Beals, invited him to participate in a plot to recover a million dollars worth of Tsarist jewels which he had lost to a double-crossing German revolutionist in Haiti. Pugilist Jack Johnson, a favorite of the carousing...
...three-year tour of Europe, his relations with Ambassador Morrow, the breaking off of Mexican-Soviet relations, challenges the truth of many a story told by Author Beals's fellow journalists. Typical is his version of how it happened that the Nicaraguan rebel Sandino was equipped with Russian rifles. They were manufactured, says Beals, in the U. S. for Kerensky, whose government fell before they could be shipped. The rifles were then shipped to Calles, who sent them on to Sandino merely as a spiteful way to pay off his grudge against...