Word: warlords
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...story is presented as a phlebotomously funny parody of a Hollywood western. When the film begins, the town is divided, just as the modern world is divided, into two armed camps. In each of them, like a land-grabbing cattleman surrounded by gunmen, sits a vicious little warlord surrounded by swordsmen. Enter the hero (Toshiro Mifune), a strong, silent, shabby samurai whose sword is for hire and no questions asked. He looks the situation over: sheriff bullied, citizens cowed, streets full of corpses, business at a standstill. Grimly he reflects: "Better if all these men were dead...
...conquest after another until even the Chamberlains in both countries could swallow no more. Shirer shows how the German generals feared that every aggressive move of the Fiihrer's would lead them into a war for which they were not ready-only to realize eventually that the "warlord's" successful bluff made their caution seem ridiculous. The big-lie technique, the phony "threats" to Germany from future victims (Austria, Czechoslovakia. Poland) are documented to the hilt. And Shirer argues that until the Russians made their pact with Hitler, the West could have stopped him cold at every point...
When American silent movies arrived in Shanghai, the brothers bought a movie camera-the "foreign devils' magic lens" -and helped build up China's huge movie market. Before long, civil war and revolution wrecked the box office. Whenever they opened a moviehouse in some warlord's domain, recalls Run Run, "the warlord's private army would invade the theater without paying, watch the film and rape the women customers...
...states of Sikkim and Bhutan, both of them Indian protectorates, and Ladakh, the eastern portion of India's Kashmir. Indians have long complained of "cartographic aggression" by China in mapping these areas as parts of China. At a mass meeting in Lhasa last month, China's top warlord in Tibet, General Chang Kuo-hua. went further. "Bhutanese, Sikkimese and Ladakhis form a united family in Tibet." said he. "They have always been subject to Tibet and to the great motherland of China. They must once again be united and taught the Communist doctrine." The border countries are "like...
...Dominican revolution of 1930 which established Rafael Trujillo as the country's warlord, Third Secretary Cabot served as liaison between the two sides, helped negotiate the peace, was commended for bravery and upped two grades in the foreign service...