Word: neutralities
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Generalissimo has always tried to avoid costly positional battles with the overpowering, mechanized Japanese forces. At the same time his military advisers have scorned the opposite strategy, guerrilla warfare, as tactics fit only for the Eighth Route (former Communist) Army fighters. Neutral observers report, however, that the Japanese have been slain four to one in their skirmishes with the Communists. Last week, after retreating from the Japanese for 16 months, leaving them sprawling toward the interior on all China's vital communication lines, Chiang publicly proclaimed a policy of large-scale guerrilla, hit-&-run attacks...
Last week Speaker Dr. Sun Fo of the Chinese assembly broadcast from Chung-king a nationwide appeal: "All the Chinese people must work for closer cooperation with Russia." United Press reported neutral military attachés in China estimate that about 100 Soviet Red Army officers have now arrived to advise Generalissimo Chiang and his subordinate commanders. The original conquest of China by Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Oct. 25, 1926) was accomplished with the technical assistance of Soviet General "Galen," later known as Marshal Vassily Bluecher and recently purged by Stalin. Hong Kong dispatches this week reported Chiang & Advisers about...
...these were recalled by Hitler) mainly to herd hundreds of thousands of Chinese provincial troops toward the Japanese and prevent those who wished to escape from escaping. After the Japanese occupied Shanghai they found many dead Chinese machine gunners handcuffed to their guns. (The Chinese explanation: "They handcuffed themselves.") Neutral correspondents estimate at about 175,000 the number of Chinese second grade troops killed at Shanghai, have reported that although some few of the Generalissimo's best troops saw action and gave a good account of themselves the bulk of them withdrew to Canton, thence to Hankow and last...
Controversies over neutral rights and the mutual recrimination by newspapers in both countries were the two principal sources of ill feeling, he said. "Seward with an eye on the Irish vote and an ignorance of international law was apt to overplay his hand and mingle well founded protests at British violations with unjustified demands for concessions." Both nations realized that their actions would establish precedents for later diplomacy...
Moreover, to make certain that this is clearly understood, a warning note couched in sharp tones must immediately be dispatched to the fuehrer of Mars. An intercontinental conference to be held at some neutral vantage point such as the Milky Way, and to which the heads of the great nations of the world would personally repair, would not only assist in resolving the great intercontinental dilemmas but might also be of considerable benefit to America's internal economy. Indeed, the benefits which might be derived from such a conference are immeasurable: there might emerge from its discussion tables the outline...