Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WHEAT AND SOLDIERS - Corporal Ashihei Hino - Farrar & Rineharf...
...Wheat and Soldiers was not written to order for the Japanese Ministry of War, there is nothing in its 191-page saga devout patriotism to make samurai over in their urns. Anti-war in general, is certainly not anti-Japanese-war-in-China. Announcement that 500,000 have been sold is a backhanded way saying that Japanese are behind army. Sole resemblance to All Quiet the Western Front is that both books are about fighting...
Winnipeg. Despite a drizzling rain, the Queen ordered the top of their automobile lowered, smiled bravely though wetly during the 26-mile drive through Canada's wheat city. Dignitaries were warned against too hearty handshaking, for the King had pinched two fingers in a train door. It was Queen Victoria's Birthday-Empire Day-and the King, after listening to professions of loyalty broadcast from every colony and Dominion of the Empire, replied with his best speech of the trip...
...Wheat Country. West of Winnipeg stretches the depressed, marketless wheat country, where once-prosperous farmers have replaced their Fords and Buicks with "Bennett buggies."* Their Majesties got into close touch with the prairies by climbing off and running and walking a mile down the right of way outside of Broadview, Saskatchewan, their train following at a respectful distance...
...boys and girls in overalls and homemade dresses from schools within a radius of 200 miles to Regina, the provincial capital, for a glimpse of their King and Queen. Lacking the money for the fancy decorations of the East, the resourceful townspeople decorated the lampposts with sprays of wheat. Doubly welcome were the King and Queen for with them came rain for dusty fields. That night at little Moose Jaw, despite rain and the exhausting ceremonies in Regina, the Queen insisted on making an eight-block parade through muddy cheering streets. After the departure of the royal party, Moose...