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...generations, they seize the ground they covet. Such was evidently the modest plan of the Japanese who know their history when, advancing from Manchukuo, they set out in July to take possession of the northern part of Hopei Province. Their plans for an inexpensive pay-as-you-go conquest was rudely upset by the explosion at Shanghai when the Chinese attempted to bomb the Japanese admiral's flagship and attacked the Japanese forces in the International Settlement (TIME...
...months Benito Mussolini has been mightily displeased with Britain for refusing to recognize fully his conquest of Ethiopia. Sullen antagonism flared into open hostility four days before the Coronation when II Duce, hoping that for once the pen might be mightier than the sword, issued orders and Italian newshawks in London, like a well-drilled Fascist Legion, route-marched for Rome and the entire Italian press clamped down a boycott on British news (TIME...
Mussolini, no altruist, was clearly hoping that he would be properly rewarded for his friendliness. He would like nothing better than for the British Government to recognize his Ethiopian conquest, then to persuade the League of Nations to follow suit. As the week progressed these hopes looked less & less wild...
Among the exemplary things about Bull Moore was his response to drink and women. Bull was a man's man. Doubtless, he could have held more liquor without showing it than anyone else in town, but no one ever saw him drunk. He could have made a conquest of almost any girl he wanted but his dealings with the other sex were notable for old-fashioned chivalry. Bull would not even let his friends boast about their conquests in his presence...
Notable exhibit; in the Italian pavilion, many photographs of barbarously cruel Ethiopian practices before the Italian Conquest...