Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Passport or no passport, dismayed Soviet officials would not risk keeping Miss Mary van Renssalaer Cogswell in Russia. They bundled her out, permitted Morgan- Niece Ingalls to stay...
Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek ripped open at Nanking last week an urgent telegram from Governor Chang Hsueh-liang of Manchuria: "THE SITUATION IS GROWING GRAVER EVERY MINUTE. I REQUEST INSTRUCTIONS WITH REGARD TO DEALING WITH PROVOCATIVE AND BELLIGERENT SOVIET TROOPS IN AN APPROPRIATE MANNER...
After smouldering for a month the Russo-Chinese crisis (TIME, July 22, et seq.) was flaring up again. At Moscow, telegrams from Soviet commanders on the Siberian-Manchurian frontier complained to Dictator Josef Stalin of provocative and belligerent raids by Chinese soldiers over the Russian frontier. Plainly the field commanders on both sides were spoiling for a declaration of war. But President Chiang and Dictator Stalin are both cool, calculating...
...clash between Soviet Russians and a force composed of Chinese and White Russians near the frontier town of Pogranichnaya. Wounded: twelve Chinese, two White Russians, five Red Russians...
...Invasion of Manchuria by 10,000 Soviet troops with 30 field guns" was reported in an official Chinese communique. Simultaneously at Washington the Chinese minister, bald, bland Dr. C. C. Wu, announced that the Nationalist government was rushing 60,000 troops "to protect our territory from violation by Russia." Fast as cables could flash the Soviet war office at Moscow denied invading Manchuria, denounced the Chinese communique as "a malicious invention to screen Chinese attacks...