Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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By last week an atmosphere of almost World War tenseness, anguish and sacrifice was spreading through China and Japan. The "Liberty Loan'^of $150,000,000 asked by the Nanking Government was well on its way over the top last week as the first official Chinese announcement said, $71.250...
"50,000 Japanese Trapped," Japan's first great objective is to seize all Chinese territory north of the Yellow River, and the crumpling of Chinese resistance there last fortnight was followed last week by drastic changes in the Chinese command, dictated by Generalissimo Chiang from Nanking.
Best news, even better than President Roosevelt's Chicago speech, in the opinion of many Chinese, was the return to Nanking of the Soviet Ambassador and Military Attache. They recently flew by special chartered plane to Moscow, and Nanking last week hoped for "action" from the Soviet Union, feared...
This week three fresh Chinese divisions from Nanking, defending the great supply base and military junction of Shihkiach-wang under General Cheng Chien, Chief of the Chinese General Staff, claimed to be holding out against "Japanese onslaughts so terrific that the Huto River is literally running with blood." Tokyo officially...
As usual, therefore, the British Foreign Office thought last week in terms of both hemispheres and in terms of war and politics ahead of economics. Conservative Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain is none too pleased that the Chinese Government has now taken in the Chinese Communists and that envoys dash by...