Word: spokesmaned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...venerate His Imperial Majesty Kang Te. Last week under Japanese officers the 95% Chinese troops of his Manchurian Army were the sturdy vassals of Empire who fought the Mongol vassals of the Soviets. Inner Mongolia is rapidly passing from Chinese to Japanese control and, if its people have a spokesman, he is bland, stocky Prince Te who goes often to Peiping, finding that the most comfortable place in which to haggle and compromise with the Japanese. One of the last Orientals to wear the old-fashioned cue, the Prince is of little more significance than a stuffed silk robe. Inner...
Berlin. The official spokesman of the Foreign Office flabbergasted Europe by saying that "Germany still owns all her former colonies," although she explicitly renounced them in signing the Treaty of Versailles and they are today under British, French and Japanese flags...
...greater than his works; and I be as much charmed by his kindliness, his "god bless my souls", and his complimentary "you knows" as I be fascinated by the adventure of his thoughts. I do listen to him and my heart doth feel that here indeed is nature's spokesman...
...were somewhat dulled by their humorous setting, necessitated, no doubt, by the camaraderie of the occasion. All this is true, yet what he said is precisely what a large proportion of this country is thinking today. His challenge will have to be answered, and answered soon by a responsible spokesman for the administration. The New Deal can successfully withstand the Henry Fletchers and the scattered forces of the Republicans, but it cannot hold forth against criticsm like this, whose strength lie in their sincerity and honesty and whose supporters come from within the party itself...
Knife-tongued Mr. Eiji Amau, famed official spokesman of the Japanese Foreign Office, last week told British correspondents it would be a good thing if the U. S. should consent to reductions in the size of its battleships. "In other words," said he, "we would like to see the crabs on the American Pacific coast lose their big claws...