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...point the Sudeten area reaches to within 20 miles of the nation's capital. Containing the extensive "Maginot" line of fortifications, constructed with French aid and almost as effective as France's Maginot line, loss of the region would lay Czechoslovakia wide open to military rape. Located within the Sudeten rim are most of Czechoslovakia's industries, of her coal and iron resources. The famed Skoda munitions plant at Pilsen, dangerously near the German border, has been secretly moved into the interior, leaving the Pilsen foundry to the manufacture of machines and railway equipment...
Protestant and Jewish philanthropic groups with branches in China had by last week brought together in the U. S. fairly full eyewitness and photographic data on the butchery and rape which reigned in Nanking for over a month after this capital of China fell. There has been the most drastic shakeup by Tokyo of officers whose Japanese soldiers went berserk in Nanking. Even long-eared General Iwane Matsui, the Commander-in-Chief of the victorious Japanese offensive, has been recalled to Japan...
Since many of the women raped were killed and buried indiscriminately with Chinese civilians, police and soldiers dispatched by the Japanese execution squads, there are no reliable statistics, but last week every white authority agreed that modern history does not afford another instance of such wholesale rape...
Neither the Government nor the Opposition entered the House this week with a program of doing anything about what Labor members bitterly spoke of in private as "the rape of Austria." However, 3,500,000 British trade unionists are organized under the Trades Union Congress and its Chairman, Mr. H. H. Elvin, roused a Labor audience to cheers by proposing that Britain demand that Germany withdraw from Austria and, in case of Hitler's expected refusal, break off diplomatic relations with Germany and Italy and expel from the British Isles all Nazis and Fascists, permitting other Germans and Italians...
...blind hero; a section devoted to Boston during the police strike (which appears from this account a bigger show than the French Revolution) ; a mass of characters, largely Irish, drawn about equally from the police and the underworld; returned soldiers, as embittered as they are eloquent; three suicides, a rape, a robbery and a final thundering climax in which a crazy policeman attired in priestly garments shoots at a thief, hits a can of nitroglycerin and makes the devastation complete. There are a number of death scenes in which characters in their final agony rise as sturdily as opera singers...