Word: one
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soviet Russia has staged one major punitive raid into one Chinese province (Manchuria) and then withdrawn all her troops (TIME...
...arranged between committees of papal and royal experts in etiquette. Chief rub: Papal etiquette demanded that visiting sovereigns should kiss the Pope's toe. Vittorio Emanuele, or Benito Mussolini, found this unbecoming to the dignity of the House of Savoy (TIME, Nov. 25). Hence the compromise, the one-kneed genuflection. His Holiness did not leave Their Majesties kneeling long. Quickly he motioned them to their feet, led them to two armchairs placed on a level with and on either side of his "Little Throne,"* which was under a velvet canopy...
...heard Comrade Litvinov expound to the great powers his cherished scheme of disarmament on which he had labored many a year. It so happened that the Hoover plan-which Mr. Gibson had in his pocket-paralleled almost exactly in its two most important aspects the Litvinov scheme,* though no one present knew that then except Mr. Gibson. Plan in pocket, he let Litvinov talk, declined to comment in open meeting, told correspondents privately that the Soviet scheme was not worthy of comment or consideration, suggested that Comrade Litvinov had presented it in bad faith...
...capital, Nanking, no one knew whether or not to believe reports that President Chiang had resigned. Martial law was in effect. Several mutinous army divisions were menacing the capital. China was another name for Anarchy. In the vast city of Shanghai, peopled by nearly two million Chinafolk, it was impossible to take a train or send a telegram to Nanking, Peiping or Hankow, "Chicago of China." Wires and rails had been cut by men with guns who might be described as soldiers, mutineers, revolutionaries or bandits as one pleased. They all looted indiscriminately. Chaos grew so complete that leading Shanghai...
...one should ask you What is the heart Of Island Yamato- It is the mountain cherry-blossom Which exhales its perfume in the morning...