Word: four
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Report had it last week that numerous bands of Polish guerrillas actively resisting the German Government necessitated calling out four German divisions for "cleaning up" operations...
...able to make it, is becoming still more drastic due to war in the Baltic, and, if the Balkans blaze up too in a Soviet grab at Bessarabia, German scarcity may soon be back to the bare bones of 1918. Significantly, last week, Vierjahresplan, official magazine of Reich Economic Four-Year Plan Director Hermann Wilhelm Göring, declared: "We must face the facts. They are the same as in 1914-18. England's power has brought German overseas trade to a complete standstill...
...week hit the back pages of U. S. newspapers. It was merely a pair of sentences to the effect that Chinese troops had lured a Japanese army into perilous passes of the Chungtiao Mountains, at the foot of Shansi Province, rolled down on them from advantageous positions, and in four days slaughtered 2,000 men. Even allowing for exaggeration, this was a major Chinese victory...
...sole job of persuading Marshal Wu to play puppet. Learning that the good Marshal was a great student of Buddhist classics, Major General Kawamoto sought to ingratiate himself by studying Buddhism as Wu's disciple. The Marshal gladly expounded the Master's life, the Buddhist Canon, the four Truths. One day last month, thinking he had won the Marshal's heart, General Kawamoto suddenly switched the subject from pulpiteering to puppeteering. Would Wu Pei-fu play? "No!" thundered the Marshal...
When Poland collapsed in late September, fleeing Polish forces took over the Rumanian border some 48 airplanes, 800 military trucks. This sizable lot of equipment was promptly confiscated by the Rumanian Government. By last week four nations were quarreling over the spoils, as duns were submitted to the perplexed Rumanians...