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...nature fervent in celebrating their great anniversaries with firecrackers and rejoicings, Chinese this year have been grimly preparing to hurl a supreme counteroffensive against Shanghai's Japanese invaders as the best way of celebrating famed Double-Ten, "The 10th Day of the 10th Month," which fell this week on Sunday, the 26th Anniversary of the Revolution of 1911 by which Chinese overthrew the Manchu Dynasty. All last week the muddy highway from Nanking, China's capital, to Shanghai was crowded and at times choked with tractors dragging heavy artillery, huge motor trucks wallowing forward with munitions, pack trains...
...Passionately." As head of the Popular Front Cabinet in France, Premier Camille Chautemps last week told the American Club of Paris in a fervent after-luncheon speech: "We have found with emotion and pride in the President's Chicago speech an echo of all the principles to which we are passionately attached! . . . We who are pacific must in these perilous times remain strong and united but we must also be conciliant and resolute. . . . We hope passionately that our appeals for peace, which are profoundly sincere, will be understood...
...Langley, S. C., during a fervent campaign speech for the post of county superintendent, Louis Togneri absentmindedly strode right off the platform into the crowd, broke...
...vast volume of public adulation descended upon Lieutenant Hobson, but overwhelming as it was it failed to turn his head, nor thereafter and in more mature years did it ever dampen the ardor of his fervent patriotism...
...sixth anniversary of the founding of the Spanish Republic was celebrated by Leftist Spain last week with many a fervent vow "to redouble labor for victory." To Spanish President Manuel Azaña came a cable of good wishes from Japan's Emperor Hirohito, indicating that Japan has no intention of recognizing the Insurgent regime of General Francisco Franco. Unperturbed, General Franco wiped the anniversary from the Rightist calendar, decreed a fiesta for May 2 to mark "the first triumphal year" of his revolt which began last July. The discrepancy of two months he overlooked in order to offset...