Word: mukden
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Russians became so incensed that on orders from Moscow all Soviet citizens in Manchukuo were urged to catch the next trains to Russia by Soviet consular officials who handed out railway tickets free to Reds who lacked money. On further orders from Moscow the Soviet Consulate General at Mukden was abolished, and the Consul General walked out, slamming the door. Since there is no Soviet Ambassador accredited to the Empire...
...stage, Miss Warner is a wet blanket at parties, has been known plaintively to ask fellow guests who were making whoopee to sit down and let her read them a few verses of classical French poetry. Her brother Gerald (Dartmouth 1930) is the meticulous U. S. vice consul at Mukden, Manchuria...
...When Lieutenant Douglas MacArthur violated all etiquet expected of a military observer and charged up the hill with the Japanese soldiers at Mukden...
Lieutenant MacArthur was not a military observer at all nor at the battle of Mukden. The American observer of that name was his father, Lieutenant General Arthur MacArthur, and that fine old Civil War Veteran did not charge with the Japanese soldiers on that occasion. Lieut. Douglas MacArthur was on duty at San Francisco when that battle was fought and the whole statement is erroneous...
TIME divides the points with Reader Winans. 1) Lieutenant MacArthur was aide-de-camp to his father at Mukden, performed as TIME said. 2) TIME'S error...