Word: evens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...during the Paris Peace Conference for the study of contemporary diplomacy. The British press unanimously hailed the speech as the truest expression of British opinion ever made by a member of the Chamberlain Government: "What is now fully and universally accepted in this country, but what may not even yet be as well understood elsewhere, is that in the event of further aggression we are resolved to use at once the whole of our strength in fulfillment of our pledges to resist...
...refer to U. S. trip as "coming out here." "To the American this suggests he is on the periphery, a provincial, perhaps even a colonial. . . . The truly ingratiating phrase would be 'over here...
...heir-apparent to Dictator Stalin's job. He became next in line when a bullet removed the original runner-up, Stalin's "Dear Friend" Sergei Mironovich Kirov. The idea that Heir-Apparent Zhdanov can have a personal opinion about anything not shared by the Kremlin would make even dour Comrade Stalin laugh...
Suave Major General Masaharu Homma, the man on the spot, even feigned surprise to find the British so annoyed because a few of their citizens had been undressed. He received 40 correspondents at his headquarters, which were lavishly spread with liquor, caviar, plates of ice cream, and other goodies now scarce in the British Concession, and there explained how it all happened. Some Japanese sentries, said the General, are simple peasants who do not understand European standards of modesty. His countrymen, he explained, do not mind disrobing in public or even parboiling in a public bath with members...
Wang Ching-wei was the favorite student of the revered Dr. Sun, wrote many of the Leader's manifestoes, even took down the famed Will that Dr. Sun Yat-sen delivered on his deathbed. He was a graduate of the Law College at Tokyo. He traveled often in Europe, learned to speak fluent French, several times took diabetes cures in Germany. He was there when the present war started. For more than two years he was China's Premier...