Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Generalissimo has always tried to avoid costly positional battles with the overpowering, mechanized Japanese forces. At the same time his military advisers have scorned the opposite strategy, guerrilla warfare, as tactics fit only for the Eighth Route (former Communist) Army fighters. Neutral observers report, however, that the Japanese have been slain four to one in their skirmishes with the Communists. Last week, after retreating from the Japanese for 16 months, leaving them sprawling toward the interior on all China's vital communication lines, Chiang publicly proclaimed a policy of large-scale guerrilla, hit-&-run attacks...
...permitted Finance Minister Paul Marchandeau to draft a program for extracting France from her financial difficulties by drastic measures of "exchange control" and "guided economy." Former Premier Leon Blum cracked: "I would laugh if it were the time to laugh!" For what Paul Marchandeau had not wanted the Blum Left to do, he now urged as a measure of the Centre...
...only former German territories now in Belgium's hands are the cattle-raising Ruanda plateau and the Urundi district, both part of German East Africa, ceded to Belgium by a League of Nations mandate. As to the return of these properties, Belgians last week said nothing...
...former city councilman, who three weeks ago expressed a longing for the good old days of town and gown fights and promptly had the crease taken out of his pants by Lampoon storm troopers, said in an interview yesterday that Plan E is for the present a dead issue...
Polling a surprisingly heavy vote in Boston, Leverett Saltonstall dealt former Governor James M. Curley a decisive defeat, and apparently carried most of the State's Republican slate with...