Word: proclaimed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believes in the League of Nations method, one must practice it. It is not worth while to proclaim its benefits every year during one month only, to return during eleven other months to tactics which failed to avert the World War. That is the reason why I will not go to Geneva...
Although such a program may seem utterly "red" and "radical" to U. S. eyes, it is quite daringly "conservative" when viewed at Moscow from the standpoint of such fiery Opposition leaders as Messrs. Gregory Zinoviev and Leon Trotzky. These gentry proclaim with sincerity and zeal the necessity of at once throwing the whole might of Soviet Russia behind the Chinese revolution. Indeed M. Zinoviev goes even further and demands that every possible effort be made to launch "The World Revolution of the World Proletariat...
...Turkey will continue to advance along the path of social and political development, guided by the light of science and civilization. I proclaim this sacred purpose from the palace which formerly belonged to the 'Shadow of God' on earth [The Sultan], but is now the property of the Turkish nation, which is not a shadow, but a solid fact...
...less than "a scrap of paper" as M. Trotzky stood up before the Comintern* and thundered opposition to Josef Stalin with all the moving fire of his famed spellbinding prowess. He urged that warlike "reprisals" be taken against Britain, demanded that pressure be brought on the Chinese Nationalists to proclaim a Chinese Soviet Republic, and generally flayed Dictator Stalin for not pushing with sufficient energy the Communist program of world revolution. Amid the stress of last week, the Comintern dared not antagonize Comrade Trotzky further than by passing a stiff resolution of censure against...
...Some say he had "a boyishly stern squint"; others proclaim him a practical joker and tell how he once answered his roommate's desire for a drink of water with a glass of kerosene. He is 25, more than six feet tall, rangy, handsome, blond. He knows flying as the barnstormer with a $250 plane and as the chief pilot for the St. Louis-Chicago air mail route. He is a prominent member of the Caterpillar Club, having four times become a butterfly and descended to earth in a parachute. In the Missouri National Guard he earned the rank...