Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soviet Union. The nominal parliamentary and executive bodies of the Soviet Union are actually controlled by the Communist party?the only one permitted to exist?and this is directed by a "political boss," Josef Vissarionovitch Stalin, who abstains from exercising public office but is the all-powerful Dictator of Russia. The Soviet Union is technically "a federation of constituent republics," and its far flung administrative network is exceeded in scope only by that of the British Empire. At present Dictator Stalin is pursuing a moderate and conciliatory foreign policy...
This great and rapid conquest was financed in large measure by Soviet Russia, but, after Conqueror Chiang Kai-shek had suffered defeat, political, not military, (TIME, Aug. 22, 1927), he turned against Moscow. Such an about face was not made by Madame Sun Yatsen. She remains Russophile, she is now in Moscow, and she was sorely vexed when the "Nationalist Government" recently broke off its relations with Soviet Russia (TIME, Dec. 26, 1927). Therefore, last week, Madame Sun threw upon the side of Soviet Russia the enormous weight of her name and prestige* in China, by cabling as follows from...
...Just as I was on the point of returning home I learned of your proposal to break off relations with Soviet Russia and demand the withdrawal of the Soviet consulates. This act, if carried out, will be suicidal, isolating China and retarding her progress...
...group tramped their sorrowful way to execution. . . . Five rifles spat their leaden charge. Five bodies ln turn wilted to rise no more. . . ." Thus the South China Morning Post of Hongkong described, last week, the typically Chinese epilogue to an ugly two-day uprising at Canton, fomented by Soviet Russian Communists. The sole eye-witness account of this revolt to be cabled to the U. S. came from U. S. Consul at Canton Jay C. Huston. Cabled he: "Control of Canton was seized by so-called workers and soldiers, numbering about 5,000. The police were disarmed. . . "The rebels, who were...
...Shanghai a group of Chinese who still call themselves the "Nationalist Government" went through the mummery, last week, of breaking off relations with Soviet Russia. Their famed Chiang Kaishek, onetime Nationalist generalissimo and conqueror of half China said: "I intend to exert my full strength to bring peace within the Nationalist territories in order to enable the re-oranization of the Nationalist government and provide for the active resumption of warfare against Marshal Chang Tso-lin [Dictator of North China], who must be eliminated before China will become peaceful...