Word: bayonetted
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...grave issue, too apt to wait and see. But no legate could be a better Bearer of Good Will to the gentle people of China. Nelson Trusler Johnson is the sort of roly-poly man a Chinese can respect, love, even fear far more deeply than the man with bayonet, dollar, or arrogance...
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.'s Paul W. Litchfield this week fixed a figurative bayonet and counterattacked the wartime forces that tend to inflate prices and costs. In full page national ads, full-jowled No. 1 U. S. Rubberman Litchfield announced tire price cuts of as much as 12½%, in spite of a wartime increase of nearly 25% in the price of crude rubber (August 29, 16¼? a lb.: Oct. 27, 20½?). After "streamlining" plants and methods, costs were slashed to absorb September's rubber inflation as well as the rubber business' big complaints...
...China was ever to accept peace, he said, it must be peace with honor and without Wang Ching-wei. What peace would be honorable? Not a bayonet peace, not a peace of pillage and plunder, not a Japanese peace. The only peace China would accept would be one based on treaties-especially the Nine-Power treaty (signed in 1922 by the U. S., Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Portugal, Japan, China-Wang Chung-hui himself was a negotiator and signer-guaranteeing China's territorial integrity). Japan, said Foreign Minister Wang, is surrounded by jealous nations who frown...
Peasants have other means of resistance. Unless it is tendered on the point of a bayonet, a Japanese yen-backed note from the new Japanese-dominated North China Federal Reserve Bank is not honored at face value. Last spring in the Japanese-occupied areas of North China, the Chinese mysteriously forgot to plant their usual cotton crop. Unless the Japanese can debauch the Chinese in captured sectors with opium, as they are trying to do, this sort of passive resistance might go on for decades...
Biggest Rebel victory of the week was the capture, by the bayonet, of Granadella, 18 miles south of Lerida, centre of the Catalonian battlefront. Before they could take Artesa, however, a group of rugged, rocky peaks well-defended by machine-gun nests had to be crossed...