Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning 3,000 Chinese soldiers with rifles and machine guns deployed as though to defend Chengteh. Through this Chinese force, which fired not a shot, dashed 128 Japanese, the extreme advance guard of Major General Tadashi Kawahara's 16th Infantry Brigade which, at 10 a.m., won the relay race and Japanese immortality...
...situation in the Far East is very delicate. Since Japan began its offensive in Manchuria, the American policy has been motivated by determination to support the various treaties of peace, like the Kellogg Pact, to defend American interests; to avoid war. It has not always been easy to hold fast to this three-fold purpose, but all three angles were important. Not one must be forgotten. Mr. Roosevelt has expressed approval of what has been done so far. It will be very wise to continue this policy because it is based on respect for treaties, is a policy of peace...
...Paynter of Lancashire, with his neck wrapped in bandages to ward off a cold, pulled England out of the innings with 356. In Australia's second innings, Stanley McCabe made himself look foolish by ducking the pitches of England's bowler, Harold Larwood, instead of trying to defend his wicket. Australia was set down for 175 runs. In a light rain next morning, a dismal little gallery of 1,000 watched England run up 157 for four wickets, then clinch the series and the Ashes when Paynter, batting with Ames, slogged out a boundary hit that ended...
...League of Nations." China will absolutely stay with the League, although she now realizes she will get no aid from it. If Japan wants to disregard all principles of peace and make war in Manchuria, then China will fight back. She will fight and defend herself. We do not yet know her objective except that it is to drive Japan from Manchuria, but the Chinese armies are now in a far better position to combat the Japanese armies than...
...Quick to defend his new word for God, quicker to show new Turkey the fate of the oldfashioned, Kemal the Ghazi, "the Victorious One," pounced on Brusa, had 60 of the faithful arrested, ousted the Mufti (ecclesiastical judge) of the Ouglubjami mosque and decreed that henceforth God was Tanri...