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...political strategy of Mao Tse-Tung, indeed the entire early Communist movement in China, was not planned in Moscow; in fact, it ran counter to all the rules established by Lenin and Stalin. This is the main conclusion made by the author Benjamin Schwartz, Research Associate at the Russian Research Center and assistant professor of History at Harvard...
They did. Loyal warships bombarded the rebellious Punta del Indio naval air-base into quick surrender. At Campo de Mayo, General Benjamin Menéndez, 67, the retired army officer of right-wing, ultra-nationalist views who led the revolt, ran into opposition from loyal troops. Desperate, he finally lined up two squadrons of cavalry (all on white horses) and two tanks and three armored cars (he had counted on 30 Sherman tanks), and started for Buenos Aires. When the column stopped outside the Colegio Militar, loyal troops fired. The rebels leaped from their vehicles and ran. Loyal forces then...
This week the CRIMSON questioned four professors on the problems confronting the United States and the United Nations in the Far East, and in Europe. These men were: Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages; Benjamin Schwartz, assistant professor of History and author of the recently-published "Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao;" Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, who has just returned from a long trip to Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, and Austria; and William Y. Elliott, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Sciences...
Gould himself admitted he had paid the price (up to $3 a lb.), and was grateful for what he got, whether it was new (Gould's ceiling price: 59? to 63? a Ib.) or "the rankest nondescript scrap." Gould identified the sellers as Benjamin S. Flug and Robert Corey, a pair of Brooklyn jobbers doing business under the name of Flurey Products Corp. Said he: Flurey Corp. disguised new nickel electroplating anodes as scrap ones (which are subject to more flexible ceilings), and sold them at many times their proper ceiling price...
...hundred years ago, everyone took for granted that the Tories were a conservative party, the Whigs a liberal one. So when Tory Benjamin Disraeli pushed through Parliament the liberal Reform Bill of 1867 (doubling the electorate), both Whig and Tory rank & file were as stunned as if night had turned into day. Tory Leader Lord Derby had to dash about explaining the significance of this extraordinary stroke to his amazed followers. "Don't you see," he cried delightedly, "how we have dished the Whigs...