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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Irishmen denied last week that in ten years the Cosgrave Government has put the country on a firm budgetary foundation (which it had to construct) ; has introduced important agricultural reforms; has overhauled the Irish cattle and dairying situations (with the result of improving Irish quality) ; and has helped to launch Ireland's industrial revolution. To this Mr. Henry Ford and the Shannon River Power development (by German engineers) have contributed most. But Ireland's young "Old Men" have done extremely well...
Powder to launch his projectile Spengler derives from the dogma "Man is a beast of prey." But he is essentially not only a carnivore, he is also an inventive carnivore. With every fresh invention Man advances further outside the bounds of Nature. To maintain his unnatural position he soon finds it necessary to band together into societies; within these societies men divide into the leaders and the led. Invention, technics become more and more complex: "The pace of discovery grows fantastic, and withal . . . human labor is not saved thereby." Knowledge to design and manage the machines becomes the leaders...
Terms: The Great Powers were informed that if they persist in their rejection of Japan's offer to share China then, this week, Japan will launch a new and greater offensive at Shanghai, pushing on into China alone...
British, French, U. S. officials in Shanghai itself lost no time replying to Admiral Shiosawa. A delegation of them boarded a launch, chugged out to the Japanese flagship and demanded a statement. Hissing politely through his teeth, Admiral Shiosawa replied that he was not a free agent, that he was merely obeying orders from Tokyo. He did agree to consult the Settlement Council before taking any military action...
...city was on edge. Somebody planted a bomb in the Nanking Theatre, largest cinema in Shanghai. It fizzled. A nervous Chinese sentry shot and killed Dr. Alexander Proges, Austrian manager of American Express Co. (known to Chinese taxi drivers as Mei-gwok wantung ngan-hong). A Chinese munitions launch blew up in the middle of the river, killed 35 coolies, just as a passenger airplane was passing overhead. Thousands of citizens thought the Japanese invasion had begun. There are no cellars to hide in in Shanghai (any hole three feet deep strikes water), so they rushed for the International Settlement...