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Advising opponents of the present democratic regime to cease obstructionist activities, Professor William Ripley, Harvard economist, expressed the opinion that the President's triumph in the recent election is attributable to the fact that he sensed the social unrest of the day, and by his actions convinced the country that he was willing to help remedy the defects of the old order...
...political advantage. "There is," he continued, "no difference between the two major parties as to what they think about Communism. But there is a very great difference between the parties in what they do about Communism. And I will tell you why Communism is a manifestation of the social unrest which always comes with widespread economic maladjustment; we in the Democratic party have not been content merely to denounce this menace. We have been realistic enough to face it. We have been intelligent enough to do something about it. . . . In the spring of 1933 we faced a crisis which...
...industrial plants and mines scattered throughout France, fresh proletarian unrest appeared last week. In all some 7.000 workers "folded arms" in strikes-as compared to more than 1,000,000 few months ago when it was a case of getting wages upped and winning vacations (TIME, June 8 et seq.). The new strikes were in sympathy with the new Spanish Cabinet headed by out-and-out proletarian Premier Francisco Largo Caballero (see p. 22). In Paris an imposing delegation from the French Metal Workers' Union bearing a petition with 2,000 signatures waited on French Premier Leon Blum, demanding...
...only conclude that the Japanese Government, needing a pretext for further armed encroachment upon China, had subsidized and provided ammunition for General Pai. The ruse continued to work to perfection. General Pai's blasts against Japan touched off all over South China precisely the sort of Chinese popular unrest and baiting of local Japanese needed by spunky little Japanese Premier Koki Hirota as an excuse to intervene. By his orders a Japanese cruiser and six destroyers soon slithered into Amoy "to protect Japanese lives and property." Added a Japanese destroyer officer, "We are ready to proceed to Canton...
...heard. Like his older brother Artist Hugo Gellert, Collector Lawrence Gellert is an ardent Left Winger. He scorns the idea that most Negroes when left to themselves will either sing spirituals or dance to the blues. The songs that fascinated Lawrence Gellert were those symbolic of Negro class consciousness, unrest and despair. From more than 300 that he has collected he published 24 last week as Negro Songs of Protest...