Word: rapes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fanned out from Peking and Tientsin to west and south. Shanghai was taken after stubborn resistance (TIME, Aug. 30, 1937). The Chinese Armies fought rear-guard actions up to Nanking, where a ferociously maddened Japanese Army committed one of history's most terrible acts (TIME, Dec.27, 1937). Murder, rape, destruction, looting-a crazy vindictiveness on the part of the Japanese-resulted in some 50,000 civilian deaths...
...Eire has steered placidly and prosperously outside the blockade of all belligerents. His neutrality policy worked so well over the war's first nine months that Prime Minister "Dev" had lately been thinking of holding a general election to cash in on its success. Last month's rape of three little neutrals not so far away upset all that. Appalled Irishmen promptly forgot political enmities energetically cultivated since the civil war. Even William Cosgrave, who rose from saloonkeeper's tyke to President (1922-32), now Opposition Leader of the Dail, rose on his feet last week...
present native folklore, songs, dances). The Netherlands also pulled out (before Hitler invaded). Finland returned (with Finnish pancakes, photographs depicting the Russian rape). So did Norway, Czechoslovakia, Sweden (with exhibits financed by their nationals in the U. S.). France, Great Britain altered some of their displays, turning them into restrained propaganda for U. S. sympathy. Belgium opened its impressive building on schedule. But Commissar General Joseph Gevaert postponed his speech, said he preferred to wait until fighting words are in order...
...show-the biggest and ghastliest show of the generation, perhaps of all the age. It was a titanic extravaganza prepared for seven years by Hitler, Goring, Goebbels and all.their Nazi craftsmen. Mere curtain-raisers for this show had been their absorption of Austria, their bludgeoning of Czecho-Slovakia, their rape of Poland. Only the prologue was their swallowing of Denmark, their kidnapping of Norway and imprisonment of Sweden. Now came the reil thing-grand-scale Blitzkrieg across Luxembourg, Belgium and The Netherlands with an end view either to conquering the British Isles or smashing France, or both. Adolf Hitler...
...There is today a new home of crime in America," wrote Chief G-Man J. Edgar Hoover in February's American Magazine, "a new home of disease, bribery, corruption, crookedness, rape, white slavery, thievery and murder. Hence the terse order that goes out daily to law-enforcement agencies when criminals are on the loose: 'KEEP CLOSE WATCH ON TOURIST CAMPS...