Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leadership of Chiang Kai-shek and will fight hand in hand with all Nationalist armies. We wish to die in battle against the Japanese. We are sure we can recover the lost territory of Manchuria." Before they can do anything of the sort, the Communist armies must move north-east some 350 miles to encounter the Japanese at Tatung in the northern edge of Shensi Province...
...legal meshes would hamper China greatly, Japan scarcely at all; 2) Japan saw the Soviet war machine suddenly weakened by Stalin's shooting of its ablest commanders; 3) the Spanish Civil War and Mediterranean mixup have so tangled Great Britain that Japan does not fear today Far East intervention by the "Mistress of the Seas...
...Russia and Italy over the Mediterranean crises, the Fuhrer's Proclamation warned that a "community of interests" exists among Germany, Italy, Japan aimed at "safeguarding Europe from chaotic madness" and dedicated to "repelling an attack on the civilized world that today may come in Spain, tomorrow in the East and the day after somewhere else." 3) Setting up Hitler's annual wail for Germany's lost colonies, the Proclamation cried, "In German economic life there is only one problem filling us with sorrow for years to come: the difficulty of supplying food...
Perfect example of the art which grew up in Mediterranean sunlight and in contempt of all barbarians North, East and South (see above) is the art of fresco painting. On the island of Crete and in Egypt as early as 2,900 B. C. artists were already masters in the technique of mixing sand, lime and water to form a smooth wall covering, painting it while still wet with wet pigments in extremely delicate and elaborate designs. From that day to this, however, the skill of the fresco painter has depended largely on his speed, because the time limit...
...what is now Canada, an impassable barrier of earth, mountain and forest. When his reports were compared with those of his contemporary, Columbus, invincible explorers of Portugal, Spain, France and Britain knew that one must sail beyond or around that barrier to get at the riches of the East. The four-century search for a northwest passage had begun...