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...Revenue collector who has been indicted for taking bribes. When Oliphant resigned, he provided another item for the list. He made public a personal financial statement listing a $1,300 loan from Henry Grunewald, a mysterious Washington private investigator. Oliphant refused to comment on the loan, but Richard C. Schwartz, Revenue Bureau lawyer, had something to say. He testified that Oliphant acted to speed up the prosecution of Teitelbaum after a telephone conversation with Grunewald about the case...
...Freshman Debating Society elected David A. Halperin president at its weekly meeting last night. Other officers chosen were: Jack C. Wilber, vice-president; Stephen G. Brush, corresponding secretary; Alan R. Schwartz, recording secretary; and Ralph I. Petersberger, treasurer...
...Schwartz calls this period of collaboration one of the most confusing and complex in modern history. He extensively analyzes the key trends of doctrine during this era in relation to the two opposing leaders, Chiang Kai-shek and Ch'en Tu-hsiu. Mao, at that time, was busily organizing the peasants--the class he believed would instigate the revolution...
Throughout this period, Mao remained a Man of compromise. Schwartz notes that he was a persistent fence-sitter and was unwilling to destroy potential rivals. Mao continued to organize the peasants while the Party itself lost more and more strength in the cities. As his power grew, Mao's conciliatory ways vanished: he murdered frequently to maintain control of the farm areas. In 1931, when the Communists lost all control of the urban sections, Mao took over the Party...
...Schwartz makes a careful unemotional study of the Communists' rise in China. His analysis of Mao, however, is not revealing; he adds little to Edgar Snow's work. But the book as a whole is a scholarly, accurate appraisal of the doctrines that transformed China...