Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those dismal howls which the greatest of British bankers from time to time permit themselves went up after coffee, cognac and black cigars at London's Mansion House last week from fox-bearded Montagu Collett Norman, Governor of the Bank of England. "Look east or west, or wherever one will, and we see gold escaping from Europe across the Atlantic," gloomed the Governor. "How far we are from those settled conditions under which alone we can work...
...Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has pocketed pride to strive for the betterment and consolidation of Central China, not immediately menaced by Japan. Some 300 miles south of Nanking at Nanchang in the fastness of Kiangsi Province he also established one of the greatest fighting air bases in the Far East. Last week this seat of Chinese air power-aviation being the sole arm in which China begins to have strength-was being transferred 1,400 miles west to Chengtu in almost totally inaccessible Szechwan Province. This move by Generalissimo Chiang resembles that of Soviet Dictator Stalin in establishing strategic bases...
Americans "Washed Out." Amid the present withdrawal of China's air power to the West, leaving China's East more than ever at Japan's mercy, Generalissimo Chiang seemed last week to have made a most fateful decision in ridding himself of famed Colonel John Hamilton Jouett and the devoted little group of U. S. battle plane experts who have enabled China to create at Nanchang one of the great air bases of the Far East, climate or no climate. In Colonel Jouett's Aviation School near Hangchow over 200 definitely top-notch Chinese fighting flyers...
...Pilot H. A. ("No Collision") Collison report that his big, twin-motored Boeing transport, bound from San Francisco to New York with twelve aboard, was but a few miles away, 4,000 ft. up, ready to glide down for the scheduled Cheyenne landing. Simultaneously, another plane approached from the East. "Please delay landing until further orders while Westbound plane comes in," radioed the operator to Pilot Collison. There was no answer. The operator signaled again. Still there came no sound of the pilot's voice, no hum of motors in the quiet, clear night...
Chief news source from the Italian side is General Staff Headquarters at Asmara, Eritrea. Last week Italian troop movements from the north were well covered, but no U. S. correspondent ventured into the malarial jungles through which Italian armies were closing in on Ethiopia from the south and east...