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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Increase of French military forces in Indo-China and building of French supply bases to complement Singapore and Hong Kong, the British Far East strongholds of Democracy...
...month after the Munich agreement Prime Minister Chamberlain got a 345-to-138 vote of confidence from the Commons after outlining his revised foreign policy as follows. Britain must be prepared to accept almost unlimited extension of Germany's influence in East Europe, Japan's in East Asia. But, just as "there is room both for Germany and ourselves in the trade" with East Europe, there was room for Britain and Japan in China. "China," said the Businessman Prime Minister, "cannot be developed into a real market without the influx of a great deal of capital...
...miles below Canton, Chinese military heads decided not to fortify the city, left it defended by untrained provincial troops. Japanese commanders decided on the South China campaign only after Britain's capitulation at Munich convinced them that Britain had no stomach for a dispute in the Far East, Chiang insisted. In fact, Japanese troops were this week within half a mile of the borders of Hong Kong, inside which they accidentally popped a few shells, as Chinese regulars, out to recapture Canton, pushed their front to within 40 miles of the city...
...between the eastern part of Germany and the recently-acquired Ostmark.* The road, to be completed in 1940, is the first section of a great highway which Germany intends to push through the Balkans into Asia Minor, via Belgrade, Sofia and Istanbul, as part of her drive to the East. Along the Czechoslovak strip, police, customs and traffic control will be in German hands. The two parts of Czechoslovakia will be connected by tunnels and overpasses. >So completely has Czechoslovakia come under German authority that last week it proceeded in the best authoritarian manner to nominate a President to succeed...
Started in 1898 by Southern Pacific Co., then engaged in colonizing and propagandizing its western empire, Sunset was circulated mostly in the East and widely advertised by Indian posters captioned: ''You can see Indians like this in the Far West and read about them in Sunset Magazine." In 1914 Southern Pacific sold the magazine to employes. They set out to publish a thick "Atlantic Monthly of the West." Circulation drooped, dropped...