Word: westernization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio hook-up with the U. S., the U. S.-educated Mme Chiang Kaishek, the Generalissimo's most trusted helper, claimed that Chinese resistance had virtually exhausted the Japanese, but asked that the Western nations declare "without delay" economic sanctions against Japan...
...Foreigners report an improvement in Chinese fighting technique. Chinese trenches are no longer individual pit-holes, but are long, connected "Western style" ditches. Furthermore, Chinese troops are now transferred by night instead of day, as they used to be, and hence are not so severely bombed from the air. Machine-gunning by the new Japanese recruits is reported as bad, while the percentage of Japanese artillery duds on all fronts is rising...
...manufactured the "Mukden Incident" and marched in from Korea, much to the surprise of the Tokyo Government. In Manchukuo it runs the whole show, bossing the Government of Emperor Kang Teh (Henry Pu Yi) and owning or controlling every major industry. Many Kwantung officers deplore the Japanese invasion of western China, believe that the destruction of the Russian menace that hangs forever over Japan's head should be the most important item on the Japanese agenda...
...about Europe these days. The man who would be arrested on sight in one Axis country would probably find conditions uncomfortably hot for him in the other. Since the Rome-Berlin Axis cuts Europe squarely in two, this state of affairs compels an exile going from eastern Europe to western Europe, for example, to chart a circuitous route...
...known as "Big Bertha." It has directional antennae that will enable it to focus its beam on particular areas. Through G. E.'s two Schenectady stations, W2XAF and W2XAD, Big Bertha will broadcast in Portuguese to South America's eastern half, in Spanish to the western half...