Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italo-Ethiopian war, Ethiopian villages were gassed and bombed, Ethiopians who probably had only a vague idea of the war were slaughtered by the hundreds. In the Spanish civil war, heavy artillery, efficient new aircraft are being used to attack cities and civilians. In the year-old Sino-Japanese conflict, Tokyo's planes have devastated entire sections of unfortified Chinese towns, killing thousands of women and children...
...political capital out of British resentment to these attacks, Opposition forces last week demanded that the Chamberlain Government employ naval protection for British merchantmen venturing into Leftist Spam's ports. Bluntly, the Prime Minister replied: to bring the British navy into play would mean active intervention in the conflict, and his Government were determined not to risk the general European war which might result. Furthermore, Mr. Chamberlain admitted, almost casually, "While the war lasts we must expect a succession of these incidents...
...East's major conflict, Japan and China have neither broken off diplomatic relations nor declared war. Technically, Japan and China still remain "friendly" nations. Until last January a Japanese Ambassador remained in Hankow, until January Chinese Ambassador Hsu Shih-yin was at his Tokyo post. Even when Ambassador Hsu left, a Chinese charge d'affaires and the Embassy staff remained. Last week, however, even they departed...
Last February, Alaskan Delegate Anthony J. Dimond* informed the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee: "I am gravely apprehensive . . . that there will be armed conflict in the Bering Sea." Concerned not so much for its nationals as for U. S.-Japanese relations, Tokyo's Foreign Office promised that Japanese vessels would leave salmon alone, would net crabs only beyond the three-mile limit...
...fact that if it loses money, it may lose its head is probably not so annoying to the Service as that of being unable to plan its working schedule and to indulge in needy visual research. Combined with shaky security and checked development is a third deterrent of unnecessary conflict over production and projection with other departments. These troubles form the reasons most favoring a budget that will permit the H.F.S. to operate with confidence and freedom...