Word: communists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HAVEN, Conn. (UP)--Yale University students and "townies" joined forces tonight in an effort to overturn an automobile containing Earl Browder, Communist Party general secretary, after he had made a speech in a campus building despite opposition of veterans' organizations and refusal of other universities to permit his appearance on their grounds...
From Peking (Japanese) and Hong Kong (neutral) came reports that last month Communist Generalissimo Mao Tse-tung charged the central authorities with failing to set up democratic government in China, with having arrested a Communist officer without provocation, with having actually fought a three-day battle against the Communists when the Japanese were less than 100 miles away...
...short-wave broadcast from Tokyo last week reported new conflict: Some fighting in Kansu Province, Communist demands for more Central Government funds, a conference of Communist leaders at Yenan headed by the second-in-command, Chu Teh, to discuss the contingency of open warfare with Chungking...
Certain it is that for some time the famed Eighth Route Army has been an uneasy fieldfellow with the Central Armies. Communists scorn the elegant-mannered, fancy-uniformed officers of Whampoa Military Academy (founded by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek); the Government resents the exaggerated publicity the simple-living, peasant-loving, estate-looting Communist guerrillas have had. Government soldiers get $7.50 to $9 (Chinese) per month; Communist soldiers get $1. The Government charges that the Communists promised to limit their Army to some 45,000 men, but have recruited over 100,000. Communists charge that the Government promised a monthly subsidy...
Earl Browder was the center of a heated controversy at Yale University yesterday as New Haven legionnaires moved to force President Charles A. Seymour to cancel the permit for the Communist leader's speech in a University building tomorrow...