Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will of Saint Sun has definitely Communist leanings, enjoins China to cooperate with Soviet Russia and with Germany which Saint Sun expected to continue Socialist, not foreseeing Hitler. Last week famed Imperial German General Hans von Seeckt, he of the genial monocle and steel-trap brain, retired from China's service after putting Generalissimo Chiang's armies into the snappiest, most efficient shape ever attained by a Chinese force. Although von Seeckt leaves a junior German officer in China as his successor, Japan is strenuously pressing Premier Wang, who is also Foreign Minister, to clean out the Germans...
...King George and Queen Mary were gratified when the Socialist majority in the Scotch town council of Greenock which voted last month to boycott Their Majesties' Silver Jubilee (starting May 6) were defied last week by the council's loyal minority. Manifestoed the minority: "In order that the children of Greenock may not be denied the pleasure of celebrating along with their brothers and sisters throughout the Empire, a committee has been formed to organize local observances the extent of which depends upon the response to this appeal for funds...
...Received with high approval and respect a plea in behalf of Britons now in jail for debt from the 1st Baron Snell, an eminent Fabian Socialist whose parents were farm laborers and who relates in Who's Who that he has worked as a "groom, ferryman and potman...
...fact that right now 450,000 carloads of manufactured goods are awaiting shipment in our warehouses for lack of rail transport!" Last week Pravda, careful not to blame anybody, grumbled: "The country can no longer allow backwardness in this vital link in our economic chain. The interests of Socialist construction, the interests of production and, last but not least, the interests of national defense demand a solution of the railroad problem this year and not later...
...news leaked from Moscow to Riga, from Riga to Paris, from Paris to the front pages of the U. S. Press. The news leak: Andrew William Mellon had bought Sanzio Raphael's Madonna of the House of Alba for $1,500,000 from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (TIME...