Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago Secretary General Achille ("The Panther Man") Starace of the Italian Fascist Party prowled through the halls of the Palazzo Littorio, Fascist headquarters in Rome, in an ugly mood. He called in the Party's trained mob-prompters and furiously dressed them down for an event which might...
> In Shanghai, Britain's Ambassador to China Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr chatted with Britain's Ambassador to Japan Sir Robert Leslie Craigie, presumably about trying to get Japan and China to stop fighting. Next day Sir Archibald went to China's capital, Sir Robert to...
The U. S. Government arranged for his passage through the blockade to Germany, and the British Government promised to safeguard him. The guarantee did not, however, include his luggage. That was searched-and confiscated-and in it were found 126 check stubs showing the Captain's payments in the...
> In the Lushan Mountains, roughly 400 miles west of Shanghai, territory the Japanese have 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...
> The German Army, which had already retreated 100 miles, with a loss by capture of 390,000 men and 6,600 guns-the largest in the history of military operations-fled through Belgium, Holland, over the Rhine, swiftly and efficiently, in a manner that Liddell Hart viewed not as a...