Word: warlords
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...celebrate the first anniversary of his coming to power, Premier Ngo Dinh Diem struck three heavy blows last week against the Hoa Hao (pronounced Wha-How), the second of his country's rebellious warlord sects. Diem sent in two nationalist infantry divisions and four amphibious groups against the Hoa Hao, a rowdy private army of dissident Buddhists who run their own feudal entity-and squeeze the peasants with taxes-in rice-rich western Viet Nam. Premier Diem first offered the Hoa Hao a chance to integrate themselves into the national army and form a peaceful political party...
...allows a great deal of lyric beauty. Her rhythm comes in soft waves, like the gliding of the proverbial spiritual dove, and she implements it by her visual construction, which gives the impression of ascension. While Derry Griscom's more complex poem about the sculpted figure of a Chinese warlord develops several ideas successfully, he adds one idea too many when he begins to speculate not only on the figure, but its creator. The additional element only serves to disturb the dignity of the immobile warlord. The third poem on art is Andre Gregory's impression of impressionism, in which...
...course of eliminating opposition to Communist rule in rugged mountainous Shensi province, Kao Kang, a squat, square-jawed warlord, learned all about the precipice treatment for despised rivals. By 1935 he had Shensi so much under his fist that Mao Tse-tung marched his harassed legions 6,000 miles to get to the safety of Kao's country. Only then did Shensi Peasant Kao, 33, and already eight years a party member, learn to read and write...
...Chiang Kai-shek should win such a plebiscite--and there is evidence that he has achieved a high degree of popularity among the firmly anti-Communist Formosans the U.S. could continue to support his government. But this would be no longer the "reactionary warlord" whom the Asians now see in control of the island, but rather a legitimized, popularly elected leader of nine million free Asians. Such a victory would greatly enhance the prestige of both Chiang and of the United States...
...Party Secretariat. The first secretary: his old ally Joseph Stalin. In the Trotsky-Stalin feud Molotov stuck by Joe, helped him transform the dictatorship of the proletariat into the dictatorship of the secretariat. One by one, the Old Bolshevik revolutionaries went down before Stalin's wrath: Trotsky the warlord, Zinoviev, chief of the Communist International, Bukharin, Lenin's "closest disciple" and longtime editor of Pravda, Kamenev, ambassador to London and Rome, Tomsky, head of trade unions, Rykov, head of government. Their power went to Stalin, their jobs to his faithful...