Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hankow, said others. There were even rumors that in hurriedly quitting Nanking, their abandoned capital, they were lucky to escape not only the Japanese but also Chinese Communists who had plotted to seize the Premier again, as they did when he was "kidnapped" last year (TIME, Dec. 21, 1936 et...
...tutelage a "Chinese Government" to replace that cleared out of Nanking (TIME, Nov. 29). There was talk of persuading China's all but forgotten "Scholar War Lord" Marshal Wu Pei-fu to abandon permanently the Buddhist monastery into which he had long ago retired (TIME, April 16, 1928 et seq.), and which reports had him often leaving. A bird actually in Japan's hand was Mr. Wang Keh-min, much heard of in 1935 when he was Acting Chairman of the Peiping Political Council. At that time the Japanese forced Mr. Wang out and had the Council dissolved...
...League of Nations and its principles." At the same time, however M. Delbos was warned that Rumania will uphold her end of the bargain only so long as it continues clear that Paris is now loosening rather than tightening its military accord with Moscow (TIME, May 13, 1935 et...
...Belgians, continued to give Fleet Street last week the trouble of guessing why he was in London on his third visit this year (TIME, Dec. 13 et ante). A very old family friend, with whom young widower King Leopold and his widowed mother Queen Elisabeth had been staying in England, last week had his solicitors insert as a letter in the London Times the champion disclaimer of the year: "We are instructed by His Grace the Duke of Portland to publish this complete and unqualified denial of every suggestion that has been made in certain newspapers in connection with...
...Right People, The bright and shining coming-of-age gift of universal suffrage and free democratic elections promised Russia by Comrade Stalin's Constitution (TiME, June 15, 1936, et seq.), being something new in Russia, naturally did not take quite the form which it has in Capitalist nations...