Word: garrison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mission revealed some of Washington's long-range thinking-a Marshall plan for Asia in which Japan might serve as the industrial workshop for a goods-hungry continent. Japanese production might help wean Asia from Red domination. State's blueprint also called for a simplified occupation, a garrison of troops for police duty only and advisory economic experts...
Shanghai's Garrison Commander Chen Ta-ching spoke bravely of making Shanghai "a second Stalingrad." Quietly and unannounced, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek had briefly visited Shanghai, defiantly proclaimed his hope of "final victory" in three years. A long-gowned shopkeeper, standing in his deserted tobacco shop, read the Gimo's words, said sadly: "Mo-liao yi pao [his last salvo...
...dawn, Acting President Li Tsung-jen, together with Premier Ho Ying-chin and Nanking's garrison commander, sped to the city airport. Soldiers put them aboard waiting planes, hastily jumped in after them and slammed the doors. Behind them, Nanking lay waiting for the conquerors...
...Lloyd Mckim Garrison Poetry Prize of $175 and a silver medal has been awarded to Louis Edward Sissman '48 of Boston and Lowell House, the Faculty announced yesterday. His winning poem was entitled 'Elegy and Reflection...
...presence of the garrison denies the question. . . of governing ourself; if the political situation remains in its present fatal state Germany will never units as a country and a democracy." He says that most Germans lost their sense of justice under Hitler, although there are some who "have not lost its faith." But these, he claims, are lost in the mass of disillusioned Germans. "And the worst thing in the world is the mass. There blooms the despotism...