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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peiping, the Communist "People's" Conference last week put the finishing licks on its "People's" Republic (TIME, Oct. 3). By unanimous vote, the hand-picked delegates chose Party Boss Mao Tse-tung as the Republic's chairman. Beneath him they put six vice chairmen. Half represented non-Communist window-dressing: Madame Sun Yatsen, fellow-traveling widow of the great Nationalist revolutionary; Marshal Li Chi-shen, leader of dissident Nationalists; and Chang Lan, septuagenarian chief of the Democratic League. The remainder were top-level Communists: Liu Shao-chi, Politburo theoretician second only to Mao; Chu Teh, aging...
...debates wore on, the most dramatic issue was one not yet on any U.N. agenda: the cold war between Russia and Yugoslavia. The Yugoslav delegation voted with the Russians against the Chinese Nationalists' proposal; in effect this was a vote for China's new Communist rulers, whom the Yugoslavs hail as comrades, hoping that the Chinese might turn to a Titoism of their own. But on most other issues, the Yugoslavs lined up with the West. Last week, the U.S. announced that it would back the Yugoslavs for a seat on the Security Council against Czechoslovakia. The Yugoslavs...
During the opening talks and the discussion that followed, three of the speakers attempted to qualify or refute the contentions of Ludwig Lewisohn, German author, critic, and currently professor of English at Brandeis University. The three were: Bernard De Vote '13, Elizabeth Janeway, and Roger Burlingame...
Last on the program, De Vote, who was introduced by moderator Harry T. Levin '33 as "the village atheist of Cambridge, Massachusetts," emphasized the danger of "critical imperatives" by others than the writers themselves. But he found the general literary picture today-except in poetry, which he condemned for its "stuttering incomprehensibility"-rather better than ever before. "We are lucky," he concluded, "that the present writing is heterogeneous, and that our best writers will follow their own stars," despite the criticism of orthodox schools of writing
...judge's interpretation will be tested in our highest court. In a previous opinion last April the Justices split 4-4, thus upholding a loyalty test dismissal. With two new men this fall there will certainly be a different vote...