Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gave up what you never could have gotten anyway ! " shouted back Chancellor Snowden. "No reply has been made to my arguments. . . . But if you have started talking of sacrifices I will tell you of sacrifices! . . . Great Britain has a War debt now more than twice the War debt of any other nation...
Fortnight ago the gist of the proposed new treaty was indiscreetly hinted before it was complete by Right Honorable Tom Shaw, bullfrog-voiced unstatesmanly Secretary for War in the new British Labor Cabinet (TIME, Aug. 12). Last week, as Prime Minister Mohammed sailed home to Egypt, the British Foreign Office released the text of the agreement which he carried, announced that it represents the "extreme limit" to which the Labor Government will go "to achieve a lasting and honorable settlement of the outstanding questions between Great Britain and Egypt...
Faced with this definite fact, the Linz police admitted that in purchasing actual war munitions Prince Ernst did seem to have broken the law. They sent a polite note to Prince Ernst, telling him of the Socialists' accusations, warning him that it would be necessary to search Schloss Waxenberg for arms. Followed four days, in which, while the police waited patiently, Prince Ernst's Heimwehr worked like ants, carrying boxes and crates out of the castle, into the woods. Only then did the Linz police, urged on by excited Socialists, climb and sweat up the hill...
Without increasing taxes Banker Soong magically increased the Canton tax yield from one to ten million dollars per month. He has said that he did it by cutting down graft, by rigid Harvard budgeting. On ten million dollars per month the Nationalists launched their successful war of conquest, financed additionally for a time by grants from Soviet Russia, a state with which they soon quarreled, are still quarreling...
...stupendous military forces. Today Nationalist China has the largest standing army in the world, though by no means the most effective. A rabble nearly 1,500,000 strong are the soldiers of Nationalism, nondescript, ill-drilled, often ragged. Some of their commanders are hired bandit chieftains, others are feudal "War Lords" left over from previous regimes. The cream are spruce, young, "intellectual" Nationalist generals. But the whole motley gang have costly appetites...