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...professed purpose of the new club to discuss social and economic problems is both legitimate and worthy, and as such it ought to be permitted. Nothing is to be gained by gruff intervention, for this move merely gains sympathy for those whom the authorities would suppress. Whatever the reasons may be, the least that can be demanded is that the chancellor give the club fair consideration and not merely the mute condemnation exhibited thus...
...future under my administration any censorship on outgoing news about Cuba. . . . Your own United Press leased wire is in constant and unhampered contact with New York. ... I have, to my very great regret . . . recently been compelled, in the interests of the continuance of public order, to suppress the publication of certain old and well known Havana newspapers...
Reds. Ordered by the President of China into Kiangsi Province "to suppress the Reds" (TIME, Jan. 19), the Eighteenth Army Division was surrounded last week and disarmed. It promptly deserted en masse to the Chinese Red Army of Kiangsi which recently massacred with amazing ferocity 100,000 persons...
...Valeriano ("Butcher") Weyler y Nicolau, Captain-General of the Spanish Army, Duque de Rubi y Grande de Espana, 92; of infirmities resulting from a fall from his horse last month; in Madrid. His life was spent in the army-sent to Cuba in 1896, he attempted ruthlessly to suppress the rebellion, succeeded only in intensifying discontent. He was recalled and did not actively participate in the Spanish-American War. Twice minister of war, he helped suppress Catalan, Basque, Carlist uprisings. He was a fierce enemy of the late Primo de Rivera; some said he lived until 92 just so that...
...Communist agitators, dumped them over the Russian border. Kosola's prestige grew by leaps & bounds. Last month 12,000 of his followers journeyed to Helsingfors by train, motor, horseback and on foot, formed ranks, marched in military formation to the Parliament building, demanded the immediate passage of laws to suppress Communism, and to make the government more economical by halving the number of representatives in Parliament. Statesmen were impressed by the size of Kosola's army. They introduced the bills, failed to get the requisite two-thirds majority, then dissolved the Diet. Vihtori Kosola bided his time, assured...