Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today the U. S. Army has no idea where it will have to fight next, but its job is to be ready whatever the spot. Purely on the laws of political probability the army's present guesses rate future wars in the following order of likelihood: 1) civil uprisings on the U. S. mainland- some sort of trouble in the social order; 2) war in South America in case fascist economic penetration rubs the U. S. past endurance; 3) war in Europe or Asia for any reason; 4) least likely of all, invasion of the U. S. mainland...
...carrying on guerrilla warfare near the border of Inner Mongolia. General Ma had supplemented his cavalry brigade with a formidable army of Mongol and Chinese deserters from forces organized by Japanese in their "puppet" states. Said Captain Carlson: "The Japanese have had no success in organizing Chinese armies to fight their battles for them. Already [General Ma] has 4,000 such converts in his ranks. While I was there a whole regiment of Manchukuoan soldiers arrived. They had murdered their ten Japanese officers and were still wearing uniforms and carrying arms supplied to them by the Japanese...
Like Tennis Player Baron Gottfried von Cramm who talked too much about his political opinions while touring the world, General von Fritsch, who opposed sending German aid to Rightist Spain and more than once told Hitler that Germany is not yet sufficiently prepared to fight a war, was smeared by accusations of homosexuality. Whereas Cramm was sent to jail, Fritsch, of a size too big to jail, merely had to resign as head of the army (TIME...
...German press boiled up with its most furious anti-Czechoslovak campaign thus far; Herr Hitler mobilized 1,000,000 men along the eastern frontiers of Germany; and the Czechoslovak Reserve Officers' Association led Prague patriotic groups last week in demanding that the Government call on Czechoslovaks to fight and if necessary suffer bloody defeat, rather than tamely yield even a fraction of the nation's sovereignty...
...English public will fight only on the side it believes to be in the right. In England, Lord Runciman is known for his justice and honesty. His word will be good enough. . . . If it is clear that we, having been attacked, will defend ourselves to the end; and if it is clear that an unprovoked attack will have the same consequences as the attack on Belgium in 1914, then there will be no war. Because even the aggressor in his blindness knows that in such a case he will be crushed...