Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Panay incident was a dramatic demonstration of that feature of the Japanese constitution under which the army and navy (1 are pledged to conquer the Orient for Japan, 2 must obey to the letter the orders of the civilian premier, 3 need pay no attention to orders from either the premier or the Emperor, 4 are responsible only to the Emperor and virtually independent of the civilian Government, 5 are responsible only to commanders in the field...
Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, praised the drive saying: "I am in entire sympathy with any move to end the horrible type of warfare which attacks women and children of civilian population...
...battleship is still the backbone of the fleet. It occupies the same position in the navy an infantry unit does in the army. Recent wars have shown that bombing civilian populations from the air is useless from a purely strategical standpoint...
Commerce: Juan Antonio Suances, a civilian engineer...
...bicycle and dash madly in the direction of the advancing Japanese vanguard, then only a few hundred yards distant. When a pedestrian warned him of his peril he turned swiftly about and dashed in the opposite direction. Suddenly he leaped from his bicycle and threw himself at a civilian and when I last saw him he was trying to rip the clothes from the man's back, at the same time shedding his own uniform...