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Peking. Amid this Shanghai war on "Reds," able New York Times correspondent Walter Duranty arrived from Moscow at Peking and cabled, "This correspondent happens to know that the Communist Party's politbureau has been advocating far less Communism in China than its enemies care to admit." He continued that...
When Sun died (1925), Chiang Kai-shek became the outstanding Nationalist leader, though still little known in the Occident. He led the greatest conquering army which China hao known in the present century up from Canton (TIME, Sept. 6), capturing successively all the chief strongholds south of the middle Yangtze...
Against this astute Mogul, wise in the thought of the Occident, the Cantonese War Lord Chiang Kai-shek steadily deployed his troops last week. He it was who created for Dr. Sun the Whampoa Military Academy in which the officers of the new Cantonese army received their military and political...
Because personal, inspiration is almost impossible to isolate or to define it is very easy to pass it over with a sneer about "another myth", or some similar remark. Nevertheless it remains true that long after the date of the invention of gunpowder in the Occident, or the meaning of...
"Roy Bradley" himself, despite a certain lack of ingenuousness that inevitably marks confessions in the Occident, remains a frenzied, consumptive paranoiac, self-immolated for revenge upon Barbarism, babbling as he waits for death that the grey bones of New England babies became fertilizer for the prairie soil; that the Puritans...