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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rare written speeches. Two days before, the President had declared that U. S. policy is not only avoidance of war but prevention of it in all parts of the world. Senator Borah addressed himself to the democracies whom every one now knows Franklin Roosevelt proposes to save if necessary. He flayed Foreign Minister Bonnet of France and the French press for criticizing the House's action in haltering Mr. Roosevelt. He asked what difference there was between Prime Minister Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler, between "democracies" and "dictatorships," when ever since Munich they could all be seen serving their...
...daily growing in strength. He figured Japanese casualties in China at 1,000,000, some 940,000 more than is admitted officially by the Japanese. In another 15,000-word address the Generalissimo begged the Japanese people to "awake from a publicity-induced stupor under militaristic supervision and save themselves from mad aggression leading to certain ruin and destruction...
...activity. Just concluded in Chungking was a conference of all military bigwigs. Despite the loss during the last year of almost every coastal port, the Chinese retreat from the middle Yangtze Valley and the near exhaustion of Chinese finances (last week the Chinese Government placed restrictions on imports to save its foreign exchange), the military men professed to believe that the Japanese war machine in China had bogged down. Cheeriest of all was dapper little General Chen Cheng, Political Minister of the National Military Council, one of the central figures in the Central Military Academy clique, right-hand...
...mastiff-like for an opening, let go. Over went Turtle Galento on his back. But he got back on his feet and in the third he even caught the mastiff off balance and rolled him over for a count of one. After that it was like all Louis fights, save the one he lost to Schmeling. He straightened the turtle up and subjected him to a swift and terrible mauling...
Author Miller took cannibalism much more easily in his stride than did Seabrook. On one occasion he says he led a highly successful head-hunting expedition to save his own neck, spares few details in describing it and the three-day orgy which followed. As other races use lanterns, flags and bunting for celebrations, the natives of New Guinea string up their victims' vertebrae...