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Between the conquest of Mackay-Postal and last week's deal with Ericsson, lay four years of adversity. Bestriding the world, I. T. & T. was, in 1929, in excellent position to flounder and be lost in a violent world-wide storm. Interest charges on new capital seemed to be mounting faster than new profits. Revolutions and bloodshed in South America threatened not only I. T. & T.'s property but its contracts as well. The revolutionary government of Spain talked loudly of canceling the agreement which, five years before, had given I. T. & T. its first major boost...
...criticism. I would suggest that the Department get away as much as possible from its graphs, casuistry, and hair-line theory, and grapple more specifically with the influence of economics on history, conquest, thought, civilization, and national policies and institutions...
Japanese courage and efficiency plus Chinese treachery and bungling made possible last week an epic and amazing relay race of conquest up the snow-swept mountains of Jehol and on to the Great Wall itself, upon which jubilant Japanese hoisted the flag of their puppet state Manchukuo...
While waiting to resume work, Dr. Andrews last week watched his The New Conquest of Central Asia go on sale in Manhattan. It is Vol I of a series of twelve which the American Museum of Natural History is publishing concerning Dr. Andrews' Central Asiatic work. The other eleven are specialized & academic-geology, topography, fossils, reptiles, fishes, mammals of Mongolia and China. The New Conquest of Central Asia recounts for laymen the lively adventures of the expeditions. It describes the nomad life of the Gobi Desert, the thrill of discovering fossils, the troubles of dealing with bandits...
Check. But just as Araki seemed most certain of being rid of it, the League stiffened. Reason: U. S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson had caused his ambassador to remind all Foreign Powers that, in effect, the U. S. would not recognize conquest by force. The U. S. became the last obstacle in the Divine Emperor's way. But in the mind of Sadao Araki there is just one means (to date highly successful) to overcome obstacles: the sword of the Samurai...