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In Washington, cables stating that Delegate Stimson has carried to Geneva a plan for "hemispheric disarmament" caused Acting Secretary of State William Richards Castle to raise his eyebrows slightly and observe, "I do not recognize that phrase."
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From Paris, where most White Russians live, cables sped to White Russians in the U. S., telling of a "secret understanding" between the British and Japanese empires with France on the point of joining in.
Through Damascus, Baghdad, Teheran, Kabul, 3.445 miles across Mesopotamia, Persia, Afghanistan and northern India to Srinagar, Kashmir, the caravan plodded, while news of its progress was wirelessed to Beirut and thence to Europe and America. Now came the hardest part of the trip, for barring the way into Eastern Turkestan...
Miners and textile workers cut all telephone wires and cables out of Manresa, then seized thousands of pounds of dynamite from the Iberian Potash Works. Up and down the valley spread the revolution. Soviet flags went up over Berga, Alto, Gironella, Puigreig, Salient, Cardona. Excited crowds rallied to Leon Trotsky...