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More Japanese were killed by Chinese weather than by Chinese bullets during the cocky little Empire's sub-zero conquest of Manchukuo (TIME, Jan. 4, 1932). Last week in Finland arrived the Japanese General Staff's noncommittal Captain Nishimura. "I shall stay here two years to study conditions," said he, shivering...
...CONQUEST OF THE MAYA-J. Leslie Mitchell-Dutton...
...Peace Conference grim Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau, who would have much preferred simply to take the Saar by right of conquest, found that the best way to handle President Wilson was to tell him that President Poincare had just received a petition of loyalty and devotion to France from 150,000 French Saarlanders. There never were any such people. There never was any such petition. Its absurdity should have been obvious to Historian Wilson, but he yielded to the tall story of Journalist Clemenceau...
...diplomatic mission copies of a blunt, unsigned manifesto from Rome. Couched in the first person, it stated that "I will not" submit to League arbitration of the Ualual Incident. All this African fracas might just possibly be the overture to II Duce's long postponed symphony of colonial conquest...
...known that there was a civilization at Lake Valencia at the time of the Spaniards. Excavations at this site reveal that there were several earlier phases of this same culture, which had reached its highest point at the time of the Conquest. The culture was a simple one, not so advanced as that of the Incas or the Mayas. There was no metal known and the development of stone implements and pottery was advanced. The people lived in lake dwellings, and practiced agriculture. It is from these lake dwellings and similar ones along the coast that Venezuela took its name...