Word: defender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...open, Chinese soldiers proverbially run. Cornered, they fight like wild tigers, defend every streetcorner and doorway, die frothing and screaming defiance...
Ideal for such fighting is the ancient Chinese city of Shanhaikwan, the perfect corner. Surrounded by its own 40-ft. wall and backed by China's Great Wall, Shanhaikwan is a 20th Century Thermopylae, the gateway defending China proper from Manchurian invaders. Last week several thousand Chinese soldiers, armed chiefly with old-style rifles, were ordered to defend Shanhaikwan against the simultaneous assaults of Japanese artillery (19 pieces), Japanese whippet tanks, Japanese machine gun crews, Japanese bombing planes (seven) and Japanese destroyers (two) which fired in high, wide, erratic fashion from their anchorage six miles away in the Gulf...
...issue lay in the Kellogg-Briand Treaty. Alien Beale said he would bear arms only under the terms laid down by Statesman Kellogg, citizen of Minneapolis. He inferred that those terms make unnecessary any pledge and that the treaty "now constitutes our chief national defense." He declared he would defend the U. S. if need be, pointing out that he had once carried arms as a special deputy sheriff in Iowa. Director Carlson pointed out that "there appears no indication that the ever present possibility of war has vanished, and from the words used it is doubtful if the high...
...Senate old General Auguste Edouard Hirschauer cried, quivering with emotion: "I cannot vote this bill!-considering that a fortnight ago we refused to pay America, and yet American soldiers fought admirably to defend our soil, as I can testify!" Unmoved, the Senate voted the Austrian loan 14440-68, after which Chamber & Senate adjourned...
...President Butler assumed a responsibility to contribute something to one side of the other. As he remarks. "Universities are from time to time denounced as nurseries of revolution by these who are quite unable to comprehend what freedom to seek the truth really means and involves." He proceeds to defend the implications of the statement but concludes with a warning against the fall from dignity caused by attacks on others...