Word: china
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transatlantic flight ended in Flushing Bay a few minutes after the takeoff; he cracked up Haile Selassie's own plane; he never got to China because he collapsed in a hotel chair, broke his arm. Last week Colonel Julian made his altitude record: he flew to the defense of Father Divine himself...
...League Council, in secret session, debated. Prominent visitor to Comrade Suritz's suite was the cultured, polished, Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo, the Chinese delegate. One more screwy turn of the 20th Century's apparently chronic cockayed politics, had put the doctor on another grotesque spot. Once China demanded that the League act against Japanese aggression. Later China supported League action against Italy in Ethiopia. But China, on the other hand, gets much of its war materials from the Soviet Union. Despite China's desire to keep a clean record against aggression, it was unlikely that...
Since it would take a unanimous Council vote to expel Russia, China's one vote alone would therefore block such action. Other nations with Council seats who are within gunshot of the Red Army were also likely to demur, notably Iran, Latvia and Turkey, to say nothing of the Scandinavian countries. Anti-Soviet zeal, in fact, could last week be directly gauged by the distance of nations from the Soviet border. British and French delegates, who generally stage-manage League proceedings, declared themselves ready to support expulsion provided other nations wanted...
...most important and least noticed dispatches of the whole war in China last week hit the back pages of U. S. newspapers. It was merely a pair of sentences to the effect that Chinese troops had lured a Japanese army into perilous passes of the Chungtiao Mountains, at the foot of Shansi Province, rolled down on them from advantageous positions, and in four days slaughtered 2,000 men. Even allowing for exaggeration, this was a major Chinese victory...
Rugged Shansi Province has for over two years been the key to the entire war in North China. Against it the Japanese have successively hurled three major campaigns and many little ones-all of which have blown up like light bulbs thrown against a wall. Because the province is as remote and vague to most U. S. readers as darkest Uganda, its news has either been undiscovered or shoved out of sight. But last week there reached the U. S. the report of a young visitor to this major theatre of China's struggle-first white man to visit...