Word: general
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...January 4, 1932 out of the gloomy General Grant rococo of the State Department emerged the figure of an intense, chivalrous man, Colonel Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State. He descended the long flight of steps, stalked across the street, entered the White House offices where he was closeted with President Herbert Hoover. Three days later a U. S. note went out to call Japan's attention to the Kellogg-Briand Peace pact. A copy of the note went to the other signatories of the Nine-Power Treaty in order to invite them to cooperate in putting pressure...
...This first general Neutrality act was hastily patched up and put into effect for six months until a permanent act could be written. Its chief provision was to place a mandatory embargo on the shipment to warring countries of "arms, ammunition and implements of war," (which were later defined by the President to include airplanes, various chemicals, armored vehicles but not cotton, oil, scrap iron, trucks, etc.). It also forbade U. S. citizens to travel on vessels of warring nations except at their own risk...
...Japanese bombs were again bursting in Shanghai. Far from declaring war, however, the Japanese insisted they were waging peace. So far as the Neutrality Act was concerned, there was no war in China unless President Roosevelt proclaimed it. To date he has not done so, and Congress in general has not been disposed to criticize him for his failure...
...retreat from the middle Yangtze Valley and the near exhaustion of Chinese finances (last week the Chinese Government placed restrictions on imports to save its foreign exchange), the military men professed to believe that the Japanese war machine in China had bogged down. Cheeriest of all was dapper little General Chen Cheng, Political Minister of the National Military Council, one of the central figures in the Central Military Academy clique, right-hand man to the Generalissimo. Said he: "Before 1941 Japan will be begging for peace." The General's rosy picture was painted from numerous facts, figures, estimates, generalizations...
...spring campaign in North Hupeh-a campaign which the Japanese hoped would eventually land them in Chungking-resulted in the greatest Chinese success of the war since they defeated the Japanese at Taierchwang in the spring of 1938. Opposing the 100,000 Japanese was the crack Kwangsi Army of General Li Tsung-jen, hero of Taierchwang. General Li caught the Japanese spread out in the North Hupeh hills, threw them back with a loss of 27,000 men. Significantly, no farther than three or four miles back of the Japanese lines in this battle Chinese guerrillas were busy harassing Japanese...