Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...requirements, men in charge of History 1 have been proud of the numbers of men they still "attract". They might better consider the divisional big-stick which rounds up students in unproductive fored-labor battalions. Where there should be an open gate to advanced studying there looms a stone wall of requirements. It is squarely up to the division to provide that gateway for students whenever they are stirred by ambition...
...Vatican City is the world's most elaborate private train. An entire car is devoted to the papal chamber and throne room, with four lifesize figures of angels outside the big arched windows. By an ingenious mechanism the Throne can be caused to upend and vanish into the wall, a superb berth appearing in its place covered by a white & gold canopy. So that six Cardinals can celebrate Mass at once en route, the Papal Train has six altars sumptuously provided with cruets of water and sacrificial wine, tabernacles, lace altar cloths, candlesticks of all necessary sizes and complete...
...North China last week another of these Japanese Puzzles was in the making. Army chiefs moved Japanese forces in overwhelming numbers down to the Great Wall. The Army's master-spy and agent provocateur, Major General Kenji Doihara, had everything set for five Chinese provinces to secede as a unit from the Nanking Government and set themselves up as "autonomous" under the muzzles of Japanese guns. Abruptly this scheme was spoiled by the Japanese Ambassador to China, grinning Mr. Akira Ariyoshi, who had a three-hour conversation with brisk little Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, after which the Chinese satraps...
Japan's army clique came back by saying, in effect, that Generalissimo Chiang's bond is as bad as his word and rattled its accoutrement along the Great Wall. At that civilian Japanese leaders said Japan's troops had been instructed by the "highest authority" (the Son of Heaven) not to move into China without an Imperial Order-something august and rarely given. In Tokyo suppressed excitement grew so thick that Japanese would not have been surprised had civilian Foreign Minister Koki Hirota or War Minister General Yoshiyuki Kawashima been assassinated last week. Japan...
...this development Japanese Army leaders said their troops would cross the Great Wall at "the first sign of disorder." Simultaneously Yin announced as the capital of his regime Tungchow, only twelve miles east of Peiping and a leading Chinese educational centre not far from Yenching University whose calm, clear-headed President John Leighton Stuart is now in Manhattan. Highly excited, Yenching's Chinese, American & European faculty leaders this week joined fiery Chinese Philosopher Hu Shih in a manifesto demanding that the Nanking Government "use the energies of the entire nation to maintain the territorial and administrative integrity of China...