Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in setting up the new Publicity Department of the Foreign Office, he moved to finish the plugging job he began last November by plugging in the shrewd conservative Earl of Perth as "general supervisor" of the Department, naming him "director-general designate" of a Ministry of Information into which the Publicity Department would be converted if war came. Groundwork for this wartime Ministry, Mr. Chamberlain revealed, was being laid by Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare (Hoare-Laval Deal...
...their father and mother. There will be no formal decorations, but residents along the way are invited to display "spontaneous" decorations, and M.P.s will gather outside the Houses of Parliament to cheer. State business-discussions with the Prime Minister of the international situation, rearmament, and the date of the general election, ceremonies and a speech at the Guildhall -must come before the well-deserved vacation at Balmoral Castle in Scotland...
Chiang nursed his hold over the Yangtze valley, but patriotic Chinese intellectuals distrusted him. His only "offensive" gestures were made against the Chinese "Reds" of the southeastern province of Kiangsi, inner lair of the famed and capable Chinese Soviet generals, Mao Tse-tung and Chu Teh, whose "communism" amounts to little more than a Populistic desire to give land to the tax-gutted and landlord-ridden Chinese peasant. Counting on Chiang's willingness to let the great granary of North China go, the Japanese Minister of War, General Hajime Sugiyama gave his underlings the green light signal without first...
Whose War? One year later, General Seishiro Itagaki, arch extremist of the Japanese army, who had become Minister of War, could have claimed that the Japanese had for all practical purposes won their war: they had bitten off the five northern provinces as planned. But the Japanese had found that they were not fighting their war. They were fighting Chiang's war and they had still...
...casualties can only be guessed at, but they have been huge - even among the Japanese, who have had to fight General Plague, General Flood, and General Attrition. The Japanese sack of Nanking will go down in history as the greatest mass sexual orgy of modern times - thousands of women and girls were assaulted to top off the mass execution of thousands of civilians. The fall of Canton last October was equally extraordinary: fearful that the story of Nanking would be repeated, Canton's 860,000 residents virtually abandoned the city within a few hours of the Japanese arrival - probably...