Word: rapes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They were spat upon, cuffed, nose-jerked, kicked and given black eyes. The atrocities stopped short of rape or firing squads...
When the first Japanese vessels nosed up to the Bund, on hand to meet them was Father Jacquinot. Behind him hundreds of Chinese, fearful of a repetition of the rape of Nanking, cheered and exploded firecrackers to please the Japanese. The French priest informed the Japanese naval commander of the refugee area for Chinese and received assurances that it would be respected. In return, Father Jacquinot and a British naval officer led the troops on a ceremonial march through the city to the native quarter...
...talking instead of shooting first. And, while all men of good will deplored the dismemberment of central Europe's one island of democracy and were saddened for the painful uprooting of the minorities which will leave the ceded territories, realists took heart from one fact. Unlike the rapes of Manchukuo and Ethiopia, the Czechoslovak rape had at least set a precedent, which might flower into a great influence for peace, for aggressors being persuaded to follow legal-diplomatic forms...
...when Poland was at war with the Soviet Union, the Czechoslovak Army occupied the Teschen area in Poland, with about 200,000 population. Thus, last week Poles and Hungarians did not regard Czechoslovakia as a virgin land which Germany had just been permitted to rape, did not regard themselves as rapists eager for a second and third outrage. On the contrary, fervent Polish and Hungarian crowds shrieked in the streets for what they were convinced was "Justice!'' Poland, powerfully armed, last week had 500,000 of her 1,500,000 soldiers lined up to invade Czechoslovakia. The threat...
...Benes suggests that the Sudeten districts be credited to Germany in the books, and meanwhile that Czechs continue to rape the Sudetenland. . . . He still hopes that Chamberlain and Daladier can be moved so that he can be released from his promise. But here stands man against man. There is Benes-here am I. Only one of us can win. We are entirely different. During the war he wandered about the world outside the danger zone, while I did my duty as a soldier - and again today I AM THE FIRST SOLDIER OF MY PEOPLE! ... I COULD NEVER BE REPROACHED WITH...