Word: disarms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Doggie Trick." In the absence of adequate explanation there are anomalies that might puzzle stouter heads than the leathernecks'. Though they have been told that they are in China to disarm and repatriate Japs, they find other Japs, still armed, standing railroad guard duty alongside them. The marines' word for this is "jacfu"-joint American-Chinese foul...
...sovereignty by all nations to a world government. This alternative is impossible in time to check the atomic armaments race which has already begun and which will soon produce its inevitable sequel. The other alternative road to peace is immediate action by the United States, Britain, and Canada to disarm the remaining-world before atomic know-how spreads abroad...
...China's independence movement now rested largely on China. The main forces of the rebellious Viet Nam ("Distant South," the ancient name for Annam province) had been pushed back to their stronghold in the colony's north. There, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's troops, sent to disarm the Japanese, were in occupation...
...southern Indo-China, dominated by the great harbor and naval base of Saigon, French troops mopped up Viet Nam guerrillas. Like the Chinese troops, the British were technically present to disarm the Japanese, were helping the French. In a skirmish at Bienhoa, a rail town some 20 miles northeast of Saigon, two British Indian soldiers were killed...
...commanders in China have orders to: 1) disarm the Japs; 2) help Nationalist China to her feet; 3) do all this without losing a man. Last week order No. 2 collided with order No. 3. Result: representatives of the most powerful nation on earth threatened to strafe a Chinese village...