Word: againe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The "New China" that foreigners have known since 1927, when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek took over the Government, was the China of the seaboard provinces. Most of it is now ruled by Japanese arms. Its capital, Nanking, centre of the web of roads, railways and airlines which Chiang Kai-shek...
One morning in September 1937, the leader of the Paris colony of White Russians, General Eugene Karlovitch de Miller, who at the time was secretly negotiating to send 20,000 men to fight with Spanish Rightists, stepped out of his office. He was never seen again.
Soon afterwards General de Miller's "staff" summoned a meeting of White Russian officers, confronted General Skobline with General de Miller's note. The officers were reminded that the White Russian court had previously acquitted Skobline of charges that he was on the Soviet payroll and had had...
Former King Alfonso XIII of Spain last week had the curious but pleasant sensation of becoming a citizen of his native country. He was made so by a decree of Generalissimo Francisco Franco himself. To the 52-year-old Alfonso, now living in Italy, were restored (so far as Insurgent...
Meanwhile Don Alfonso, last of Spain's Bourbon monarchs, having prudently invested tens of millions of pesetas in foreign bonds and stocks while he sat upon Spain's throne, did not go hungry in exile. Citizen Bourbon will regain little now save two homes, one on the fashionable...