Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...North China, Yosuke Matsuoka was just the man to explain to the world Japan's case after Japan seized Manchuria in 1931. He was sent as chief delegate to the Plenary Session of the League of Nations, which was considering the Lytton Report on the China-Japan conflict. There he conducted a dramatic rearguard campaign in a series of unconventional, eloquent, unrehearsed speeches in which he dragged in even Christ...
...problems that Japan faced last week had brought the conflict between conservatives and the go-ahead group to the point of crisis. Between the hotheads of the Army and the conservatives represented by Baron Hiranuma and Masatsune Ogura, Yosuke Matsuoka was steering a perilous course, veering toward the activists, on whom he has always counted for support...
...General Staff never considered the Armistice anything more than an armistice. Kept intact through the Reichswehr, the General Staff planned to continue the war as soon as possible, first by what André Chéradame calls scientific warfare (propaganda, the war of nerves, etc.), later by armed conflict. Hitler, when he came to power, found a plan already made for him. "He is only carrying out the Pan-German idea with its logical developments...
...Hunt is more than just a thriller. Without ranting or tiresome speechmaking, it states the case for Democracy v. Naziism with intelligent restraint. The conflict between Hunter Pidgeon and Pursuer Sanders, the Gestapo chief, puts a man of good will up against a tough guy who thinks that might makes right. Director Lang (M. Fury), thrice-wounded Austrian veteran of World War I and a fugitive from Nazidom, knows that conflict intimately. Because he also knows how to tell a story with a camera, Man Hunt has the kind of polished wallop that Hollywood likes to talk about...
...case of coffee was merely last week's example of the conflict in policy among the Government's various arms. Many another import commodity-copper, rubber, tin. tungsten-has felt the conflict too. New Dealers figured there was only one ultimate solution: a Government import monopoly, next step toward total economic...