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From Chinwangtao, the seaside resort just below the Great Wall, to Singapore, the big British naval base at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, the coast of Eastern Asia rumbled last week with warlike activity. At Tientsin Japanese soldiers tightened their two-weeks-old blockade on the British Concession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Ultimatum and Blockade | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Scottish David Kirkwood, M. P. for Dumbarton Burghs on the ship-building Clyde, depends for Parliamentary repartee largely on two phrases: "Put that in your pipe and smoke it" (when he has made a killing shot); and "I don't give a damn" (when he has been worsted). Once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Welshing Scot | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Mrs. Hull bowed (no curtsy) to the visitors. Animated talk began. They all boarded the train, rumbled through the night toward Washington. In Pennsylvania, the pilot train was halted with a hotbox, streaked at 85 m.p.h. to try to catch the royal train at Washington. It was eight minutes late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Here Come the British | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

In Alaska's most spectacular volcanic display in more than a decade, the crater vomited flame to a height of 1,500 feet, acrid smoke and hot ash to a distance of five or six miles. The smoke pall was so thick in Perryville that lamps had to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mountain of Fire | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

The main Loyalist job in the closing hours of the retreat from Catalonia was to get as much war supplies as possible into France and out of General Franco's hands. Tanks and heavy artillery pieces rumbled over the frontier in endless lines. At Le Perthus alone more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Last Retreat | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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