Word: manchuria
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...Japan has been following a plan of aggression in the Far East, as is amply shown by her activities in Manchuria, which will undoubtedly lead to a great deal of trouble. Japan at present is demanding a navy of a strength equal to that of the United States or Great Britain...
...large jagged exit. The wounds were invariably infected, many teeming with maggots. ... As noted in the World War, and in keeping with the maggot therapy for chronic osteomyelitis, the wounds when cleared of maggots presented healthy granulations and were certainly none the worse for the infestation. . . . "The weather in Manchuria was severely cold and exposures following wounds were often severe and prolonged. Gratifying salvage of apparently hopeless gangrenous forearms, hands, ankles, and feet rewarded expectant conservative nursing measures. The dead parts were permitted to separate spontaneously. A black, cold, apparently lifeless limb re covered often with loss of only toes...
...opponents, or the possibility of the game's ending in a riot as it did the last time they played in 1930, than they were of their parents. Most Chinese families had forbidden their sons to play with the Japanese boys since matters had gone so far in Manchuria. Of the 2,000 Orientals in the grandstand only 150 were Chinese...
...Cabinet committee, "writing monumental treatises on the tsetse fly and the trawler fleet." He joined the staff of the London Spectator, became literary editor, eight months later went to China. Five months after he got back he was off again to Brazil. After finishing Brazilian Adventure he went to Manchuria as correspondent for the London Times, returned to London to find the town talking about his book. First-rate journalist, Peter Fleming at 26 has no illusions of grandeur about what he writes, obviously enjoys writing it. Typical of him is the cable he sent home from...
...world with grim alarm but thinks an open eye better than a buried head. The Europe of 1933. says Simonds. is ''back in the situation and state of mind of July, 1914." After Japan's deliberate flouting of the Kellogg Pact in her conquest of Manchuria, the failure of the Disarmament Conference, the withdrawal of Japan and Germany from the League of Nations, all that was lacking to complete the dark picture was a militaristic Germany. Looking at the causes of the last war, Simonds finds them inevitable: the Allies' European balance of power mortally threatened...