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...Russia is displeased with what has happened in North Manchuria, which is considered in the Russian sphere of influence. We can understand their disappointment at seeing their domination in North Manchuria fading permanently. We certainly have no intention of attacking Soviet Russia and do not believe they are so rash as to challenge Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA-JAPAN: Scholar, Simpleton & Inflation | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

...advocating full discussion and impartial judgment the CRIMSON, merely seconded a view which is a cardinal point in its editorial policy. On affairs such as this rash conclusions based on insufficient knowledge of the case are of little value. In his criticism of Japan Mr. Sweezy brings up one of the major points of the case which is referred to in an accompanying editorial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bronx Cheers | 2/4/1932 | See Source »

...tourists were frightened away from British shops by saffron-robed women pickets. One tourist persisted in buying a hat, had it snatched from her head. Police found five live .bombs in a first-class compartment of the Darjeeling express. The walls of Bombay buildings mysteriously broke out in a rash of Red posters. Below a crudely drawn picture of a sword and pistol ran the legend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Full Resources | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

...Western statesmen had already made an industrious study of Shakespeare and borrowed, deliberately or unconsciously, some of the remarkable economic notions so eloquently preached by Jack Cade, as reported in the second part of King Henry the Sixth, Vowing that there should be reform in the land, he made rash promises of what he would do when he came into power--"There shall be in England seven half-penny leaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it a felony to drink small beer." Perhaps some of our elder statesmen would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bombast Circumstance | 12/19/1931 | See Source »

...every conceivable honor, all possible emoluments heaped on him. He became Prime Minister, was even made Chancellor of Oxford. He could do no wrong. Once out shooting (being a General, not a sniper) "he shot a dog, then a keeper, and finally an aged cottager who had been rash enough to do her washing near an open window." When the victim cried to her mistress that she was wounded: "My good woman," she replied, "this ought to be the proudest moment of your life. You have had the distinction of being shot by the great Duke of Wellington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Iron Duke | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

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