Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day the rebels claimed that War Minister Ho Yingching had joined them. He did not deny it. From Hankow he telegraphed to President Chiang with brutal frankness that 28,000 government troops in Kiangsi had just deserted to the Communists. Ordinarily such bad news would be kept secret...
Unless the victorious Allies can be fully justified now they must be judged as murderers and brutal tyrants in enforcing their terms of peace. And they cannot be justified if it's admitted that the cause of the Central Powers was equally just. To give both sides of the issues equal value is to make the war nothing but a bloody pastime for those involved...
Hence it is that the Harvard men who died with the Central Powers have no rights at their Alma Mater now and upon no possible basis can they be entitled to equal honor with those who died with the Allies. War is too brutal, too devastating and too idiotic to be so easily smoothed over as this. The only hope of the war generations in history is to justify their fighting by the results, and if there be no results, as there cannot be if all are now considered equal, their condemnation will be terrible...
...grew up she fell in love with one of her foster- brothers, Evelyn, who was beautiful. Unfortunately he turned out to be a provincial esthete and not much of a fellow. Her ; foster-father made sottish attempts on Camila, and when repulsed sold her to a brutal young gypsy man who led her a dance for a year. When she returned to her foster hearth Camila's outlook on life was somewhat changed, but she permitted Evelyn to marry her. Elder Brother Harry was really her man, and eventually she saw it that...
...Republican campaign between Mayor Thompson and Judge Lyle had been rough and raucous, bombastic and brutal. Yet in the election itself there were no shootings, no sluggings, no kidnappings, no ballot-stealing, only a few bloody noses. Against the Mayor had been arrayed the Tribune, the News, the Snow-Harding organization, the Deneen forces. That he had won the nomination even by a minority vote was due chiefly to the good work of his payroll machine, the Negro vote, the solid support of the "gang wards." Two also-ran Republican candidates took enough anti-Thompson votes away from Judge Lyle...