Word: handedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the first Japanese vessels nosed up to the Bund, on hand to meet them was Father Jacquinot. Behind him hundreds of Chinese, fearful of a repetition of the rape of Nanking, cheered and exploded firecrackers to please the Japanese. The French priest informed the Japanese naval commander of the refugee area for Chinese and received assurances that it would be respected. In return, Father Jacquinot and a British naval officer led the troops on a ceremonial march through the city to the native quarter...
...years ago the assassination of Yugoslav King Alexander together with French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou at Marseille was "on the police." Last week, although a Marseille fire brigade chief gave his life recklessly fighting the flames, the holocaust was "on the fire department." The conflagration got completely out of hand...
...British poll of public opinion by the Gallup method last week, 85% of Britons queried were against return of any former German colonies to the Reich, and 78% answered "Yes" to the question Would you rather fight than hand them back...
Only reported reprisal against committee members last week was the temporary dropping of bylines of two sports writers by the Minneapolis Journal. All "Deadline" authors were Guildsmen, though the Guild officially took no hand in the publication...
...story of a Fascist coup d'état which miscarried because it was met with a counterattack as savage as the charge of the Cadillacs driven by the Barcelona volunteers; of militiamen using as weapons anything that came to hand-old automobiles, old airplanes, revolvers, dynamite, makeshift armored trains. Largely written in Spain between July and November 1936, it was turned out, diary-fashion, while Malraux was leading the Loyalist air force. After flights over Franco's ter ritory, he shut himself up in Madrid's Hotel Florida, wrote in five or six-hour spurts, making...