Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refused to sign even a provisional map until they received further orders from Tokyo. Japanese papers fed the public with whoppers about how "our soldiers have been generously feeding the starving Soviet troops," charged that Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had been in radio communication with Soviet Far Eastern Army Marshal Vasily Bluecher, begging him to restart the Russo-Japanese war as the only means of diverting the Japanese from capturing Hankow...
...that, as during the last war, their needs are still wholly subordinate, to the army's. Workers about to set out on vacation tours or cruises of the Strength Through Joy organization found these had all been "canceled indefinitely." In Munich and in most German cities near the Eastern border, people waited on street corners for the motor busses which usually take them to work, then were told they had better walk, since the army had commandeered the busses. Even mail trucks of the German Post Office stopped delivering letters, began delivering soldiers, reservists and supplies. As men called...
Meanwhile, German householders in the eastern frontier regions were advised that troops would be billeted in their homes, with precautions to be taken against German soldiers becoming too intimate with Jewesses. Farmers throughout Germany were ordered to rush their harvesting, complete it by the first of this week if possible, and be ready to have their horses requisitioned by the army...
...observer was ready last week to predict that the commission would place its approval on the original partition scheme. In fact, the New York Times's Near Eastern correspondent, Joseph M. Levy, went on record with the statement that the turbulent conditions in Palestine had convinced the British that two far-reaching changes must be made in the partition plan: 1) The proposed Jewish State must be reduced from 2,500 square miles to some 400, confined to the Sharon Valley, whose population is about 95% Jewish. 2) The Arab State idea must be abandoned. "Highest British authorities here...
...conceivable air attack on Britain would come from the East, so when the air games were held by His Majesty's Royal Air Force last week the hypothetical enemy was significantly described as "Eastland." Britain sent requests to her eastern neighbors to keep their airliners out of the "war area" over the North Sea. The German air services meekly obeyed. But the proud Royal Dutch Airlines responded with a bristling reply to the British Air Ministry: THE NORTH SEA BELONGS TO NO NATION AND NOBODY IS EMPOWERED TO CLOSE IT TO INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC. IF ANY BRITISH FIGHTERS INTERCEPT...