Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shoulders were promptly shrugged in Paris at the French Foreign Office. Its official spokesman said off the record that no such traffic exists. That it does exist no serious correspondent or commentator on the Far East has questioned for many months...
...tested before the President can act, and significantly in Shanghai last week the U. S. and British Chambers of Commerce held a joint conclave, then dispatched U. S. Chamber President W. H. Plant on the Empress of Russia which will reach Vancouver November 14. President Plant, who is Far East Manager for U. S. Steel Products Co., announced that he is bringing "startling details of the carefully planned Japanese threat to the American commercial stake in China...
...larger cities. Effective British government was confined to the boundaries of new Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa. Daily trains to Egypt operated only thrice weekly, and then under armed guard. Arson, murder, wanton destruction made the Holy Land a land of terror, reducing Britain's prestige in the Near East to its lowest point in history...
Before giving in, however, Britain first had to save face-an important matter in the East-by restoring order to show that she was master of the situation. More British troops having landed, Britain finally began her reconquest of Palestine. With 3,000 soldiers standing by at nearby Gethsemane, Bethlehem and around Jerusalem, Black Watch Coldstream Guards and Royal Northumberland Fusiliers scaled the old Roman walls, marched in through the Biblical Dung and Zion Gates, began to clean up the Old City's underground labyrinths...
Before Marshal Bluecher "disappeared" his authority was extended to unify under him the secret police of the Soviet Far East as well as its Red Army. To the All-Union secret police Chief Nikolai Yezhov, Commissar for Home Affairs in Moscow, this was a partial curtailment of authority, and likely was it that potent Yezhov helped to "break" Bluecher...