Word: garrisoning
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...King Carol ordered full mobilization to resist a Hungarian threat to his western frontier, Bucharest buzzed with rumors that the Red Army had overstepped its mark and was pouring into Old Rumania. Baby tanks crawled out of pregnant Red Army planes at Reni on the Danube, overcame the Rumanian garrison there before it could unstack its arms.* Presently, isolated units of the Rumanian Army began to resist and two trainloads of wounded Rumanian soldiers arrived in Bucharest. That, apparently, suited the Russians fine. It looked as if Russia wanted trouble more than she wanted territory...
...night of July 7, 1937, the commander of the Japanese North China Garrison, holding night "maneuvers" near the bridge, noticed that one of his men was missing. Jumping at once to the remarkable conclusion that the man had been kidnapped by Chinese troops and spirited into a nearby walled town, he demanded that his force be admitted to the town. The demand was naturally refused. Then, according to the Japanese legend, the Chinese wantonly opened fire on the innocent little servants of the Son of the Sun, and obliged them to fire back-and therefore obliged Japan to send about...
Because The Nation, left-wing weekly, had come out for U. S. rearmament, veteran Liberal Oswald Garrison Villard,* longtime (1918-33) editor & owner, since 1933 a weekly contributor, resigned. Wrote he in a valedictory article last week: ". . . America is to be safeguarded, not by guns and warships that may be rendered valueless overnight by new inventions and new tactics, but only by greater economic and industrial wisdom, by social justice, by making our democracy work." Said Nation Editor Freda Kirchwey: "It frightens me to read such articles. They represent, to my mind, a danger more present than Fascism...
Last week, a few Barbary apes-meat for air bombs-still squeaked and picked their fleas on Gibraltar, but the British garrison under Lieut. General Sir Clive Gerard ("Jock") Liddell, 57, knew that terrible tests lay not far in the future...
...from Russia? To smooth relations with Spain, His Majesty's Government sent Sir Samuel Hoare as Ambassador to Madrid. He got a chilly reception and exiled Loyalist Alvárez del Vayo cracked: "The mission of a failure." Women and children were already being evacuated from Gibraltar, whose garrison the German-planted guns in Algeciras may try to blow into the sea before long...