Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a Paris divorce in 1923, Bullitt married Anne Moen Louise Bryant Reed, widow of Red John Reed of Greenwich Village who went to Russia and today lies buried in the Kremlin wall. They had one daughter. In 1930 they, too, were divorced. Mr. Bullitt continued to travel in Europe every year, keeping up his personal contacts in London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna. His mind and manner seemed to please foreign statesmen as he told them what the U. S. was thinking and doing. In 1926 he published a novel (It Can't Be Done). Among his unproduced plays...
Meanwhile the Tokyo War Office proudly announced that Japan would make no further advance south of the Great Wall, that the Heaven-Sent Army had reached all its objectives, finished its task...
...north were not so sure. Reports reached Tientsin that a new "Western Expedition" of 3,000 Japanese troops was sweeping from conquered Jehol province into Chahar Province, Inner Mongolia. Mayor Chou Ta-wen of Peiping ordered anti-aircraft guns mounted at 20 points round the old city wall. Not that he could keep Japanese troops out, but just to make things more uncomfortable for them. Bets increased that the Heaven-Sent Army will set hollow-eyed Henry Pu Yi on the dragon throne of the old Forbidden City before summer. Peiping universities packed up their libraries and laboratory equipment, prepared...
...Japanese bombing, destruction and invasion of U. S. mission property. In Peiping Japanese Chargé d' Affaires S. Nakayama announced last week Japan's willingness to make reparations. It had already made a cash settlement for the bombing of a French Catholic Mission south of the Wall ($600, silver) and had paid rental for the occupation by Japanese troops of the U. S. Methodist Mission at Shanhaikwan ($22, gold...
...Roman Catholics, ten Moslems, nine Jews, seven Gregorians, one Baha'i. Last summer he put on a Y. M. C. A. cross country race with policemen, army officers. Jewish and Arab athletes. The race began near the spot where first broke out the series of Arab-Jewish Wailing Wall riots...