Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they stop pressing her in North China. This week the British delighted Japan by announcing imminent withdrawal of British troops from North China, on the flimsy pretext that they are needed in Europe. The British force, which has been a whole lot of cold water on the hot Japanese garrison at Tientsin, will be only a tiny drop in the B. E. F. bucket...
...Historian Charles Beard. While Liberal Lippmann plumped for repeal of the arms embargo, hammered at the Communist-Fascist threat to democracy, Liberal Beard wanted the embargo kept, lashed out at "giddy minds and foreign quarrels" like an outraged professor lecturing unruly students who have got his goat. Liberal Oswald Garrison Villard said his liberal say in the Nation, in the New York Evening Post, in a new book, Our Military Chaos that repeated his old fear of militarism...
PARIS--The French garrison holding Ferbach, center of a bulge extending so deep into the German lines as constantly to threaten the security of Saarbrucken, has been isolated by German howitzer fire, it was announced today...
...Arabs biting the dust. There's the character of the hard-as-nails Army sergeant this time a Russian in the French Foreign Legion, which gives Brian Donlevy a chance to turn in one of the best performances of his career. There's the funeral pyre and the garrison of corpses,--all the dramatic and vivid scenes which can be wrung out of Wren's story...
...smoking hot Russian tea. Immediate question was what to do with 300 Red Army troops who were now sailing into the harbor aboard the Soviet transport Luga. These were only the first instalment of 25,000 Soviet soldiers who are being brought to Estonia under the Treaty to garrison Stalin's bases. The Estonians agreed to billet these troops in private homes. Since most Estonians speak or understand Russian, since every Red Army soldier is well drilled in Communist propaganda, this billeting seemed clearly a Soviet opening wedge. Moreover the Red Fleet brought quantities of Moscow newspapers, immediately...