Word: secessionism
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The historian writes, "War's end seemed to have decided only who was to make the peace, a wrangling between victors." In America there was wrangling, between capital and labor, Democrats and Republicans, Molotov and Byrnes, men and women, even clashes between gridmen of Harvard and Yale. As the result...
Two Newcomers. Not Chou En-lai but two lesser Communists, Wang Ping-nan and Liao" Cheng-chi, publicly made the secession threat. Both came some months ago from Chungking to Nanking, where they have been relatively obscure members of the Communist delegation. Wang is solemn, homely, rather likable. He is...
"Direct Action Day," proclaimed by Moslem League Boss Mohamed Ali Jinnah, touched off the disaster. But much blame for what actually happened was shifted to Huseyn Shabad Suhrawardy, head of the Bengal provincial government. Chief Minister Suhrawardy, 52, is a slick, Oxford-educated Moslem who has a bad reputation for...
Died. Alfred Stieglitz, 82, world-famed photographer, founder of the "photo-secession" movement that emphasized realism and sought to make photography an art, husband of Artist Georgia O'Keeffe, the obscure Southern art teacher whom he sponsored; in Manhattan. Stieglitz introduced to the U.S. the works of Rodin, Cezanne...
Virginia was a reluctant seceder. The state did not leave the Union until Fort Sumter was fired on and President Lincoln called for volunteers. In the first flush of secession and war optimism, in the almost carefree mood of Richmond, any Confederate could take care of ten Yankees. The deceptive...