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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...China to stop fighting. Next day Sir Archibald went to China's capital, Sir Robert to Japan's. In Tokyo, Sir Robert was greeted by Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita with great politeness and greater vagueness. But in Chungking, as he stepped from the plane which had taken him there, Sir Archibald was handed a copy of an important declaration by Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek: "Our prolonged resistance, our policy of gaining time by sacrificing space and winning the final triumph through an accumulation of small victories, has reduced Japan to the position of a second-rate power. . . . We will...
...Taken aback, Orator Mussolini cleared his throat, changed the subject and went on, but the heart had gone out of the act. The speech over, the Blackshirts, innocent of their error and still warm with the thought of comforts to come, hurried out and treated the town to a mass souse such as Rome has not seen since the days of Caligula...
...been fighting for since last summer, a fierce battle raged for nine hours. Afterward official Japanese dispatches claimed complete "annihilation" of 5,000 Chinese defending Kuling, the cool, hill-encircled summer resort where many foreigners used to escape down-country heat. Next day came the truth: Japanese troops had taken Kuling, but 2,500 Chinese defenders had broken through the Japanese lines and escaped...
...joined seven men in one of the innumerable visionary parties of desperation that post-War Germany produced. There were then seven and one-half marks in the party treasury. With his colleagues he had worked out a 25-point program, designed a flag and uniform, floated a newspaper, taken the party itself from its founders. Now it had 108,000 dues-paying members. Now it had twelve members in the Reichstag (out of a total of 490). It had 13 deputies in the Berlin City Council. It won more than eleven percent of the total vote in an election...
...Guadalupe Victoria, Puebla. Mexico. Belittling storm warnings, Flier Roosevelt, on vacation from Harvard, took off from a Mexico City airport with a girl companion, Carlotta Constantine, and Schoolfellow Rumsey, headed for Veracruz, ran into a storm, crashed in a forced landing. Catapulted clear of the wreckage, Carlotta Constantine was taken to a Mexico City hospital with fractures of left...