Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's resurgent army harried the retreating Japs (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS) provincial authorities executed four Communist guerrilla leaders for "rebellion." The rebels, it was charged, had operated under a Communist order to direct "propaganda against the Kuomintang Government . . . using charges of corruption of officials to shake the confidence of the people in the supreme military and administrative leaders of the country."* More & more Chinese Communist guerrillas were filtering through Japanese lines in Central China, fighting here & there with Central Government troops. Chungking's War Minister, General Chen Cheng, deplored the clashes, declared that Government troops...
...Scholarly Sort. Everyone agreed, that is, but Sickles himself. He resumed his seat in the House. When Abraham Lincoln, first Republican President of the Union, strode awkwardly into the House and the other Democrats kept their seats in stony silence, Representative Sickles broke ranks to shake the new President's hand. "Why, Mr. Sickles!" exclaimed Lincoln, laughing and delighted, "from what I have heard of the doings at Tammany Hall, I expected you to be a giant of a man, big and broad-shouldered, tall as I am. But instead I find you are quite a scholarly sort...
Tokyo announced a shake-up in its Navy, bringing Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa into the top operational command...
General Heinz Guderian, tank expert, at Berchtesgaden belittled U.S. tanks and Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton ("he followed the same principle that I used in Poland, France and Russia"). declared U.S. and German soldiers should shake hands and make up ("just like after a football match...
Washington has been less forthright. The last Tokyo Cabinet shake-up brought into office a group of conservatives influenced by such old friends of the Emperor as Prince Konoye and Baron Hiranuma. Is a split developing between the businessmen and nobles, on the one hand, and the Armyj chiefs, on the other? If so, the split is bound to weaken Japan's war effort. Washington does not want to heal the breach by an overt propaganda attack on the Emperor...