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Word: counterbluff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...days later Japan brought its ebb-&-flow, bluff-&-counterbluff attack to the flood for a fourth time, smashed through to a final decision. The French agreed to permit three Japanese air stations in Tonkin, with 6,000 troops to garrison them, and granted immediate landing of a limited number of soldiers at Haiphong. But the agreement did not come soon enough to satisfy the fire-eating leaders of Japan's South China Army. Before Major General Nishihara could communicate with them, they had crossed the border at Dong Dang, engaged in a bloody, two-hour midnight skirmish with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: War or Peace? | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

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