Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plants of South China's No. 1 city and No. 1 port, were touched off as the Japanese approached. Great fires sprang up, blazed over an area of several square miles. With Canton spurting smoke and flame, Chinese dynamiters wrecked the $8,000,000 Pearl River Bridge. The foreign quarter on Chameen Island was saved from catching fire only by a sudden shift in the wind...
...advance Japanese forces, behind a murderous airplane and artillery bombardment, hammered into Hankow. Chinese military heads, unwilling to stage a bloody last-ditch defense, abandoned the city, leaving squads behind to dynamite anything of value to the Japanese. Terrorized Chinese clamored at the barricades to Hankow's foreign areas as flames roared through the city. Generalissimo Chiang enplaned for a new military headquarters in the interior, Mme. Chiang flew to Chengtu, northwest of Chungking...
Meanwhile, Barcelona lived through one of its most terrifying 24 hours, marked by six Rightist air raids. For the first time since the war's start the city saw a priest in full vestments march through the streets, carrying a cross, followed by Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo and General José Riquelme, among others...
...London affiliate of the Gallup poll found opinion in the British Isles 57% "satisfied" with the Chamberlain foreign policy. Simultaneously U. S. citizens were Galluped in the same direction, favored the Prime Minister by 59%, although only 30% thought the Chamberlain "peace" permanent...
...London Lord Halifax, British Foreign Secretary, meanwhile had conferred on the Palestine mess with Foreign Minister Seyyid Tawfik al Suwaidi of Iraq, an Arab country which has done more than its part in fanning the Palestine fire. In a Cabinet session Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain discussed the peril of the Near Eastern civil war to the Empire's lifeline to India. Strong were the indications that Britain would shortly give in to Arab demands that Jewish immigration be stopped and that the population be stabilized at 400,000 Jews, 900,000 Arabs...