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...This Ferjencik called upon the National Coalition to do. The Communist coalition members could be counted on to agree. The non-Communist majority in the Government was up a tree. If they gave in, they would play into Communist hands. If they did not, they would precipitate a political split which would help nobody but the Communists...
...Russian Social Democratic Party split into the Bolsheviks (majority) led by Lenin and the Mensheviks (minority). Often the Bolsheviks were the minority and the Mensheviks were the majority, but Russia is Russia, and Communists will be Communists...
...Szechuan-born peasants, Liu Po-cheng early became a soldier, fighting the warlords' battles. In one early encounter, he lost an eye and gained his nickname. During the brief marriage of the Kuomintang and the Communists, he fought for Chiang Kaishek. After Chiang split with the Communists, Liu went to the Moscow Military Academy. On the Communists' famous retreat into Shensi (1934-35), Liu negotiated with savage Lolo chieftains to give the Communists safe passage through their forests. To seal their agreement, Liu and the Lolos' high chieftain drank newly killed chicken's blood. They swore...
With their lawyers by their sides, the men at the head of Manhattan's three biggest art museums last week sat down to decide matters of mutual concern. They bound themselves to a three-way split of art, and agreed to keep out of one another's way from...
...raisers,according to Department of Agriculture figures, are the chief beneficiaries of high-priced meat. They now get 70? of every consumer's dollar spent on meat, as against 51? in 1939. Although it had no exact figures on the remaining 30? , the department guessed that it was split as follows: commission agents 2?, packers 10? , wholesalers 3? and retailers...