Word: regional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What is most striking in the new 'Chinese Cominform' program is that it is to be applied over a region in which the Chinese imperial monarchy formerly held a kind of paramount position, and in which large Chinese communities have been built up in modern times by emigration from China. It is also the region which, in the abortive Japanese plan for 'Greater East Asia,' was to have been . . . included, together with China, in a bloc of states under Japanese hegemony. The propaganda against 'Anglo-America' which poured forth from Tokyo only five years...
...Communist methods of subversive propaganda and intrigue, with the infiltration of armed bands, might have great success against weak or vacillating opposition in a region already full of disorder and unrest. This is the ideal mode of expansion for a nation which lacks real military strength, but can bring to bear politically the mass weight of a population of four hundred millions, the prestige of a traditional ascendancy and the glamour of a revolutionary gospel...
Donald T. Fox '51 was elected chairman of the New England Region of Students for Democratic Action at the regional convention last weekend, and Ann Dupre '50 was chosen secretary...
...orchidaceous never-never land of languor and burning kisses, and contains the memorable exclamation (made, of course, by a female character): "If I live to be forty, it was a moment I shall never forget." ¶ Prancing Nigger (1925), which has an all-colored cast, is laid in the region of a Firbankian Haiti. It tells how members of a backwoods family at last achieve their dearest ambition-to gate-crash high society in Cuna-Cuna City. Under its dancing, smiling surface run strong undercurrents of human sadness and disillusion. It is Firbank at his best. ¶Concerning the Eccentricities...
...television audience has grown by 900,000 people in this region since last year, when there were only 23,000 sets in Boston...