Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back into your memories!" doomed the cello. "Have you forgotten that it was at the moment of Verdun that America joined us in the War? ... I had then the formidable honor of being the head of the Government of France. I know whereof I speak. The enemy was in the suburbs of Verdun. Those were hours of anguish! No one then believed that victory would perch upon our flags...
Like a luscious, dangling fruit is Manchuria, granary of the Orient, the only part of China not impoverished by war and famine, a prosperous land that absorbs annually $36,000,000 worth of U. S. goods. Last week the growling and hissing of Russian Bear and Chinese Dragon over the Manchurian prize grew increasingly furious until the two Great Powers clawed warily at each other, drew a few spurts of soldier blood. Such was the smoke screen of lies set up by both antagonists that alert observers could set down only a few vital, verifiable developments...
Dragon Pussyfoots. Shrewdest move of the week was made by President Chiang Kai-shek of China and Foreign Minister C. T. Wang when they sought to use the general treaty for the renunciation of war (Kellogg Pact) (see p. 9) as a shield to cover up the high-handed fashion in which, last fortnight, they booted out of China the entire Russian personnel of the Chinese Eastern Railway (see map). The expulsion was clearly not "an act of war" in the technical military sense (though it was a deadly blow at the Far Eastern commerce of Russia). Consequently, argued...
First Blow? But, since the Kellogg Pact loses its legalistic potency to prevent war as soon as shots have actually been fired by one of the adversaries, major interest centred last week on numerous border skirmishes, incessantly rumored to be taking place along the Chino-Russian frontier. The moment such a skirmish assumed sufficiently bloody proportions to be called an "overt act," it might serve as the tinder spark of war. Soon across the barrier of censorship, lies vast and uncharted distances, came a loud Chinese accusation. The Governor-Dictator of Manchuria, Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang, officially charged that...
From Moscow came no equally authoritative counter charge. Soviet troops were admittedly mobilizing to menace Manchuria like a pair of tongs closing in from Manchuli and Vladivostok. Russian newspapers in the U. S. received word that General Uberovitch had been appointed Soviet Commander-in-Chief. During the World War he served as a regimental commander in the Imperial Russian Army, was later C.-in-C. of the Soviet forces which repulsed the white Russian Armies from Siberia in 1919. Though a taciturn martinet, Comrade Commander Uberovitch is popular in the Red Army, is reckoned its most brilliant strategist...