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Poughkeepsie. N. Y.. Wednesday, January 31. 194aiirror Struggles Of Attain DemocracySuit'dlev, Lyons ClashV VIn Altituih' On Gov’tSpeaking in the Aula last Saturday on “The Hole of Communism in the War/1 Agnes Smedley, writer and lecturer on China, declared, “I despise the Kuomintang because of their terror against the Chinese people/* Defending the Central Government, Jean Lyon, recently returned from China, said that all the Chinese people are i Jing to recognize the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek during this war*Working with the Chinese Communist Armies from 1937 to 1940. Miss Smedley said that the “greatest tragedy” in China’s history came in 1927 when Chiang’s government was set up. Miss Smedley compared the situation within China at that time with that within Greece today. The merchants then ottered loans to Chiang Kai-shek, representing the Kuomintang party. if he would disarm the peasants. drive the Communists out, and establish his own government. Chiang agreed.Secret TruceChiang’s government was recognized by foreign governments bo-luse of its stand against Com-nism, and, consequently, against Russia. In 1935. Miss Smedley revealed. Chiang signed a secret truce with the Japanese government, agreeing to d* militarize one of thlt; Wythe i provinces, withdraw the Kuomintang troops stationed there, and suppress anti-Japanese movements within the country. Later, she continued, Mussolini trained Chinese for the air force and Germans trained many men for the ground forces.Kuomintang troops attacked a branch of the Communist Army in 1940. killing luOO men and women.Griffin Explains Teachers’ UnionMr. Charles Griffin. Professor of History and newly elected president of thy Vassal local of the American Federation of Teachers, told of the purpose of the union on campus and nationally in an interview with the Miscellany News.About ten years ago New York State passed a Teachers' Loyally Oath Bill’1 which required all teachers to take an oath of allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and the State of New York Many of those affected by this bill felt that it was the beginning of an unjust regulation of teachers’ activities bv the State.Sind sky Lands AfirIhH'iunpiiliirv Film*By Nikander Strelsky Associate Professor of RussianOn Saturday. February 3 at 7:30 Avery Hall the Faculty Film »mm it tee will present two documentary films of the war. the Lib-erenon of Paris and the Barrie of Russia. The latter is the filth of a series of seven Army Orientation films. First shown about a year ago, it is a composite woven of Russian fact films historical films made in Russia before the war, German and other new pictures, and an excellent assortment of animated maps. The whole production was supervised by the photographer. Lt. Col Frank Capra. I 1 — V * A ..-.-I. T ;i..»l. » r.
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Poughkeepsie Miscellany News
Poughkeepsie, New York, US
Wed, Jan 31, 1945
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