Word: china
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Institute announced today a series of public lectures, of which Mr. Hodge's is the first. The lectures are scheduled as follows: Nov. 14, "China's Back Door," by Schuyler Cammann, for several years a teacher in China; Nov. 28, "Aerial Photographic Mapping," by Lieutenant Colonel James W. Bagley; Dec. 12, "Travels in Northwestern Canada," by P. G. Downes; and Dec. 19, "Biological Observations in the Dutch East Indies," by Charles T. Brues, professor of Entomology...
...merchant marine was to have been confined to the Western Hemisphere; under the new amendment U. S. ships may carry nonwar supplies 1) to all ports in the Western Hemisphere south of 30° north latitude; 2) to any port in the Pacific or Indian Oceans, including the China Sea, Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea. The President is granted discretion to declare out of bounds all North Atlantic shipping routes (including that to Canada via the Gulf of St. Lawrence) and may extend the prohibited areas wherever War II extends...
Then the Ambassador spoke shockingly frank words. "Many of you," he said, "are not aware of the increasing extent to which the people of the United States resent methods which Japanese armed forces are employing in China, and what appear to be their objectives...
...summer of 1937 James had his first taste of war when he was sent out to China to help cover the Sine-Japanese conflict. That December when the Japanese army was threatening Nanking, the American embassy staff and all other nationals were evacuated to the Panay...
...From China, James left for Spain after spending a few additional months in the southern part of China. he became a correspondent behind the Loyalist lines; in fact, he claims that every warring country had better look out if he should be its newspaper correspondent, because he infallibly seems to bring bad luck. Both armies with which he worked have been the losers...