Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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LONDON -- Royal Air Force reconnaissance planes flew back from the island of Sylt today with photographic evidence of havoc created by wave after wave of British bombers in a six-hour bombardment of the German air base...
...Finland more far-reaching in character than those presented last autumn." Paris-Soir printed rumored Russian demands as telephoned from Stockholm: 1) the whole Karelian Isthmus, including Viipuri; 2) all territory northeast of Lake Laatokka, including Sortavala; 3) the northern part of Finnish Lapland, including Petsamo; 4) a naval base at Hanko, plus the whole Hanko peninsula. The demands were said to have been presented in the form of a 24-hour ultimatum. For that piece of reportage, no correspondents were permitted to telephone anything out of Stockholm for 24 hours...
...Embassy-and that the Finnish delegation was on its way home to win Parliamentary approval. The new demands were said to be considerably easier: Viipuri, Sortavala, and Petsamo would not be taken; and instead of Hanko, Uto (halfway between Hanko and the Aland Islands) would do for a naval base; the Terijoki Government would be abandoned...
...nearest Japanese naval base, Tsingtao, Japanese authorities hurried to apologize and offer $200 in damages to the British Consulate. The Consulate wired the Embassy. The Embassy, thinking the loss of face and the joke worth much more than $200, marked the case as closed...
...Badlands have been patrolled by slovenly, bullyish Japanese-controlled Chinese policemen known as the Ta Tao Boys (for the puppet Ta Tao Government), who are quick and careless at the trigger. Japanese assassins working for the Wang Ching -wei Peace and Reconstruction Movement use the Badlands for their base; and Puppet-elect Wang's own fortified hideout is within a dice-throw of the most notorious opium and gambling joint in the whole area. No day goes by without at least one shooting in the Badlands. The section has naturally infected the adjacent International Settlement-so much so that...