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...soldiers of the Nanking Government were actually fighting the Soviet-financed armies of Communist bandits in Central China at the very moment when diplomats of the Nanking Government were exchanging documents of recognition with the Soviet union. This paradox was accepted in China with complacence. Chinese cheered up. A caucus of the Kuomintang (Government "People's Party") at Nanking oozed bland contentment. By three almost unanimous smash votes the Kuomintang urged the Government: 1) to "encourage and intensify" the Chinese boycott of Japanese goods?this boycott having furnished the specific excuse cited by Japan for her bombardment of Shanghai (TIME...
...colleagues but also with Democratic politicians and office holders all over the U. S. Though Majority Leader Rainey held a slight betting edge last week in this race to the rostrum, the Speakership will not be settled until late this winter when the 313 Democrats of the next Congress caucus in Washington. Then the balance of power will be held by the 129 new members, most of them from the North and West. Seniority Ladder- There would be no serious question about Representative Rainey's selection had it not been for the Harding landslide in 1920. He entered...
...Edinburgh restless Scotsmen held the first regular caucus of their new Scottish Self-Government party, elected as its leader stodgy James Graham, the excessively aristocratic 6th Duke of Montrose...
...personal rule of one man. . . . Stalin has destroyed every vestige of democracy within the Party!'' Extremely cautious, Dictator Stalin look no action against the manifesto's daring authors until he had obtained, by means best known to himself, a vote of confidence from the 1932 caucus of the Communist Party, sitting secretly inside Moscow's Kremlin (TIME. Oct. 17). With this in pocket, Comrade Stalin proceeded to strike last week, sharply but cautiously, Not a single Big Red was touched. Instead two comrades who were Big Reds in the world's headlines years...
Stone walls do the Kremlin make. Not a building, as most people suppose, the Kremlin is Moscow's citadel, a triangle of high ground bounded by walls and bastions behind which cluster massive government buildings and multi-spired church towers. Last week the 1932 caucus of the Communist Party rose after sitting secretly inside the Kremlin with awful solemnity, supposedly shaping the destinies of Russia...