Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Japanese War Office solemnly declared last fortnight that a "state of war" existed in the empire. A general, instant mobilization of war industries was ordered. General staffs assembled, industrial leaders sat alert at their desks, all factories were ordered to produce "war materials." Martial as the mobilization sounded, it was in reality no more than what occurs annually on Defense Day in the U. S., when for a few minutes railway presidents and corporation heads exchange potent telegrams with the War Department at Washington. But Japan's Defense Day served to remind U. S. citizens in Hawaii, last week...
...York World last week aptly summarized: "War guilt is primarily a political question: on it are supposed to depend the German obligation to pay reparations, the disarmament of Germany in a Europe which remains armed, the occupation of the Rhineland. and prohibition of the union of Germany and Austria, and the demarcation of the eastern frontiers. When these five questions have been finally settled. Article 231 will cease to have any political value, and the sentimental objection to it will prevail...
...automobile in front of the Serajevo town hall. A few moments later as the automobile passed by the Lateiner bridge over the Miljacka River, a volley of pistol shots rang out. The Archduke and his wife slumped forward, dead. That shooting by the Serajevo bridge, fuse of the World War, brought death to millions. Incidentally it brought independence from Austria to the province of Bosnia and the creation of the Jugoslav Kingdom. Last week all Jugoslavia celebrated the anniversary...
...month ago, Marshal Feng, war lord of Peiping (Peking) and the Northwestern Provinces, was on the verge of war with the Nationalist Government. Four hundred thousand troops were mobilized on either side. Haughty Marshal Feng sent scurrilous letters to President Chiang, and rallied his allies (TIME, June 3). Last week, before actual hostilities commenced, the "Christian General" suddenly capitulated, agreed to leave China...
...complete surrender. For calling off the war, Marshal Feng was to receive $3,200,000 from the Nanking government; three millions to pay off his private army, $200,000 for personal traveling expenses. Further, Marshal Feng was not going abroad, ignominiously, "for his health," as has many another discredited Chinese leader. On his travels Marshal Feng will soothe his wounded dignity with the comforting title of "Special Investigation Commissioner of Foreign Economic Affairs for the Nanking Government." Lastly President Chiang was forced publicly to cancel the order for the capture and punishment of Marshal Feng, before he would consent...