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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What the gentleman from Ulster said to the gentleman from Kerry-"Sure and you have said many things new and true, but the things which were new were not true and the things which were true were not new"-applies to the strangely confused words which have recently come from...
"One finds it difficult," began the pensive dictator, "to explain such a defeat [the 14-day advance of the German Army] only by the superiority of German military technique . . . and by the lack of effective assistance ... of Great Britain and France. The Polish State has proved so impotent and inefficient...
Thus with great circumspection the Dictator told the people what part of Poland Russia intended to get-i.e., the Polish Ukraine, the northeast area south of Lithuania. Hurriedly Russia called up 4,000,000 troops. Hurriedly Russia called an armistice in the Russo-Japanese War (see p. 24). Then...
And in China the Japanese pressed ahead. Copying the British fashion, they bombed with leaflets. But as usual the copy was inexact: not following British restraint, the Japanese simultaneously bombed with bombs, horribly, killing 400 and wounding 400 in Lu-chow, a city without medical supplies. In Shanghai the Japanese...
In the 19th Century and the first two decades of the 20th, China lived on hopes that the white men would fall to fighting each other and leave her alone. They fought in 1914-18 and millions of them were fighting again last week; but still China was the loser...