Word: manchuria
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...some of the books took his fancy. The Harvard University Publications, he found, were placed, appropriately enough, next to books on Games and Sports; while War Songs next to Individual and Individualistic Composers made him suspect that the world of music was not without its skirmishes. He discovered Manchuria defended only by Thibet, between China and Japan...
These preliminaries over last week. Delegate Matsuoka hurried on to Geneva and presented to the League a 40,000-word rebuttal to the Lytton report on Manchuria which she had made Manchukuo. It was simple and blunt. Japan denies that in invading Manchuria she violated either the League Covenant, the Kellogg Pact, or the Nine Power Treaty guaranteeing Chinese sovereignty. Japan denies that Manchuria is an integral part of China. Japan denies that her army acted except in self defense. Once again Japan makes the excuse that she merely protected a revolt-started by Manchurian nationalists. Japan will neither accept...
...John is seldom candid, but he was understood to think that if Japan had "renounced force" (instead of merely "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy" under the Kellogg-Briand Pact), something could have been done about the undeclared war during which Japan bombarded Shanghai while shooting up Manchuria...
...towering budgeted expenditures Japan's Army & Navy will absorb nearly half. From Manchuria, excuse for these expenditures, there has come glory but no revenue. Facing the fact of national incapacity to pay, Finance Minister Takahashi prepared to make up his staggering deficit by issuing bonds. He hoped that Japanese tycoons who profit from exploitation of Manchukuo will buy them...
Little 1. Fling Huey will be cating bulldog mincemeat with chopsticks made out of the despicable Yale goalposts before two hundred more bandits are killed in Manchuria. It is no bull to say that the bulldog will have his day as the underdog tomorrow. Harvard 14 Yale 7 Brown 14 Colgate 6 Notre Dame 20 Navy 0 Stanford 21 California...