Word: somes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In the late evening of September 18, the whole imposing edifice collapsed like a circus tent assailed by impatient roustabouts. Japan had detected some reputed Chinese sabotage on the Japanese-controlled South-Manchuria Railroad and Japanese troops marched into Mukden. By the standards of the era which had passed, the...
Since there is "peace," China has been able to obtain U. S. loans (notably $25,000,000 last December from the Export-Import Bank), and to buy U. S. munitions, motor trucks, airplanes. Some economists and humanitarians maintain that Japan has gained more than China by being able to buy...
During the past six years of the neutrality seesaw, three schools have fought to control U. S. peace policy: 1) the "sanctionist" school, led by former Secretary of State Stimson, aims to keep the U. S. out of war by penalizing aggressor nations which start wars-depriving them, but not...
Across the China Sea and far into the interior of Asia, 2,200 miles away, at Chungking, China's temporary capital, the atmosphere seemed brighter, even though half the people had left the city in fear of air raids. There were several mass meetings and the damaged and scarred...
> In a message to the Chinese people Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek maintained that Japan was being steadily weakened, that China was 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...