Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frontier line dividing Germany from France & Belgium is demilitarized anew for an equal depth on both sides. The French dig up out of the ground along the frontier a section of their $300,000,000 concrete and steel forts with heavy gun emplacements, the Belgians similarly abolish their frontier forts, and the Germans merely march out of the Rhineland the troops they last week marched in with such rejoicings...
...hard young men who count on doing as well out of the next war as their fathers did out of the last optimism was rife. Small-talk and chit-chat were of the Army's new "tank-piercing rifle" and the scandal that Czechoslovakia's "Bren" machine gun is so good that British armorers are going to have to pay huge royalties in order to lease the patents...
...that, argues the apologists of Weakness, would have made him madder and more maniacal than ever. Yes, but how dangerous is a madman if you have a gun to shoot him with when he gets funny? As for relative strength, look what Great Britain did to India with a few thousand soldiers, and who has heard of the Boers in all these years, though their hate at first after defeat must have been as great even as that of a Frenchman for a German...
...young mustards were after still more exalted human game. Their ambition was to machine-gun none other than "The Last of the Genro," or long-venerated Elder Statesmen who were responsible with Japan's late, great Emperor Meiji for opening up the Empire, mechanizing it and making Japan a Great Power. The last of the Genro is 86-year-old Prince Kimmochi Saionji, outwardly a very gentle old man who asks thoughtful questions of the greatest living Japanese and never makes any comment or suggestions himself except to the Son of Heaven...
...escort him through the University, give him a champagne dinner; 2) in 1908, as a well-known Indian potentate, he asked to see the Dreadnaught, newest of battleships, then surrounded in official secrecy. The naval officials put on full regalia, conducted him over every ship, gave him a 19-gun salute; 3) as Ramsay MacDonald, to whom he bore resemblance, he infuriated a group of Laborites by delivering an impassioned Tory oration...