Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from imagining that France can be bluffed into handing over Tunisia without a fight, much less into handing over Corsica, or Nice or Savoy, is trying mainly to get or keep other things. Il Duce in the past few weeks has already got France and Britain to recognize his conquest of Ethiopia. That is in the bag, and it was a big part of the original Hoare-Laval Deal (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935, et seq.). There are also the beautiful Spanish Isles, Majorca and Iviza, now effectively occupied by Mussolini's airmen. And there was also a now almost...
...movie tries to show what happens to the world when "the four horsemen," Conquest, War, Pestilence, and Death are loosed on the world. Valentino, who between love scenes fights for the French in the World War, is killed in the climax of the play by his own cousin, a German...
...Occident is that the West is being kicked out of East Asia by Japan. The recent establishment of the monopolistic, Japanese-financed North China and Central China Development Companies is an extension of the same Japanese methods used to squeeze Occidental trade out of Manchukuo. Japan's conquest of Canton last month put 20,000 British traders in Hong Kong temporarily, if not permanently, out of business. The Yangtze Valley is virtually closed to all except Japanese salesmen...
Japanese troops continued to press out from Hankow, where some 5,300 captured Chinese soldiers are soon to erect a memorial to commemorate the Japanese conquest. At week's end Japanese forces, driving southward along the Canton-Hankow rail line, had captured the strategic city of Yochow, 122 miles southwest of Hankow, and the northeastern gateway to Hunan Province where Chiang Kai-shek has established new military headquarters...
Spain and Ethiopia. The vote of confidence secured by Neville Chamberlain specifically covered his announced intention to declare in force the Italo-British treaty of last April. This instrument recognizes the Ethiopian conquest on the condition that "substantial" numbers of Italian troops are withdrawn from Spain. Spain recently said good-by to 10,000 Italians. There are still some 40,000 Italians fighting for General Franco, but Mr. Chamberlain told the House last week...