Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conquest of China, he claims, the Japanese sold monopolies in gambling, prostitution and opium to racketeers. But individual officers and police (there are five distinct Japanese police forces in Manchuria, often at odds) sold protection to other racketeers and kept for themselves money intended to pay for Japanese arms. Vespa organized gang raids against rivals of the monopoly (his European birth minimizing interdepartmental conflict, since officers blamed him rather than the army). A fascist and an admirer of Mussolini, Vespa nevertheless believes that "the nations of the world are committing a most terrible mistake in dealing with the Japanese...
...important difference between the mind which can clear itself by thought and the mind which remains bewildered and can proceed only by burying the difficulty in a formula-retained, at best, by mere rote memory-is in this power to recognize the new problem as, in part, an old conquest." Intelligence in its highest form, he adds, is ability to ferret out the changed meaning of old words in new settings. E.g.: The water is boiling in the kettle. The kettle is boiling. ("Kettle" changes its meaning in the second sentence.) Mr. Richards' first lesson is on rhetoric...
...first place, the Nazis by their seizure of the Sudeten areas, have set the precedent of claiming nationalities by the conquest of foreign regions and the subsequent creation of new minorities (for many parts of the Sudeten area include as many Czechoslovaks as Germans). What is more, Hitler, in his "glorious" liberation of the submerged Germans, by carefully avoiding mention of the seven hundred thousand Poles in German Silesia or the three hundred thousand Slavs in East Prussia, proves himself to be anything but a champion of submerged peoples. Likewise, in supporting the claims of Poland and Hungary...
PARIS--European statesmen, snatched from the brink of war by the four-power conference at Munich, tonight, were understood to be considering a formula for liquidating the two out- standing irritants of the political horizon--Italy's conquest of Etheopia and the Spanish Civil...
...long as we hold all the land between the railways the Japanese can get no taxes, no food supplies, no minerals, no cotton. They will have no profit to show for their expensive conquest...