Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Premier & Generalissimo used to affect a garb as simple as Hitler's or Stalin's, today appears in resplendent uniform with the spruce, German-trained troops of "Chiang's Own" on posters splashed widely about China (see cut). From Shanghai arrived last week the best picture yet of Chiang's grim, steel-helmeted, Prussian-disciplined regulars advancing recently at Lotien in the teeth of Japanese fire which sprawled some grotesquely as they fell (see cut). Old-style Chinese troops, such as still compose most of the country's forces, would have fled in floppy straw...
Meanwhile London correspondents gleaned from the entourage of Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky and at the British Foreign Office that a struggle was going on in Moscow to dissuade Dictator Stalin from what was said to be his preference for withdrawing Russia entirely from the Non-intervention Committee and even refusing to participate in the Nine-Power Conference on China and Japan soon to meet at Brussels. Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinoff, whose office is not in the Kremlin and who is not especially close to the Dictator, was said to be urging strongly that Russia keep her place at London...
Instead, all indications were that Stalin last week proceeded to balk. Worried-looking Ambassador Maisky was forced to deliver a note he had managed to keep from delivering for a fortnight declaring that Russia for the time being will cease paying her share of the committee's expenses. "The question of belligerent rights," Maisky on instructions told the committee, "has nothing to do with and is foreign to the problem of non-intervention...
...been at open sessions with Communists present, vigilant to see and report who moves to nominate whom and what reasons are given by each participant. Finally the Electoral Law sets up a descending scale of "electoral commissions," all appointed on approval from above and ultimately responsible to the Stalin State, each empowered to examine and validate or reject nominations...
Thus there seemed no reason to suppose last week that any candidate could be nominated, much less elected, unless he or she is openly and zealously for the Party and the State of Stalin, except in distant or rural communities where, from the point of view of Moscow, the whole political apparatus may have "got into the wrong hands"-say those of the pious...