Word: incidentally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A nation which still puts her scholars before her soldiers audibly protested. Students staged sympathy walkouts in other cities. Kuomintang partisans blamed the incident on "malicious elements." But Generalissimo Chiang, who was opposing Communist extremists in the north, now turned on Kuomintang extremists in Kunming. He dismissed the city'...
Blandly the General said he had always favored "coordination" between Japan and China. "A limited war was always our intention," he explained. "Throughout the war on both sides there were always those who hoped to be able to end the war by negotiated peace." Japan had indeed sought persistently to...
The Russian press growled that the Turkish Government had given police protection to the rioters and used the incident to build up its pressure for a more "friendly" government in Turkey. Observers, who had seen the same thing happen elsewhere, waited for a Russian-controlled political party to spring up...
Plan Green also provided for an "incident" to provoke German intervention. One idea: to kill Germany's minister to Prague and blame it on the Czechs. The timely intervention of Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier at Munich saved Minister Dr. Ernst Eisenlohr's life.
"I watched the following incident in Berlin's swankiest nightclub, the Femina. At the end of a set of dances a SHAEF-patched U.S. Army captain staggered drunkenly off the dance floor. His 'Is there any son-of-a-bitching Russian in the house?' could be heard...