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This message could hardly mean anything less than that Soviet bombers and troop ships were about to start for Spain. In alarm the Great Powers peppered their diplomats in Moscow with urgent queries. When correspondents galloped into the Soviet Foreign Office on the diplomats' heels they were received by an official who said that he personally wished with all his heart that Soviet bombers were roaring toward Madrid. "Unhappily it is not so," shrugged this Bolshevik spokesman, "the Soviet has given its word that it will not intervene in Spain and the Soviet has always lived...
...their chicken-hearted husbands, are waiting outside the gates. They present their guests with the key to the city, and that night, while the Mayor writhes in impotent fury, the Duke, his hungry friar, his lecherous little dwarf and all his soldiers are royally entertained. Next morning, the strangers troop away across the plains and Boom's burghers come out to face their wives. The Mayor's wife makes a generous speech giving him the credit for saving the town from the horrors of a siege. He notices around her neck a magnificent new string of pearls...
Japanese tanks and armored cars escorting Japanese troop detachments rumbled through the main streets and chief business section of Peiping to the famed Forbidden City of the vanished Manchu Emperors. At the gates of the Forbidden City was posted without explanation a heavy Japanese "guard...
...took the War Department nearly 18 years to decide that Hero Parker's heroics rated the Medal of Honor. On July 18, 1918, the 28th infantry of the A.E.F.'s First division found itself in a tough frontline sector near Soissons. Between it and a troop of French Colonials on its left was a jutting mound and rock quarry from which a nest of German machine guns spat a relentless enfilade fire. Seeing that the U. S. flank would soon be shredded to bits, Lieutenant Parker ordered his platoon and a group of wandering, disorganized French Colonials...
Author Smith writes with lucid detachment of the formal yet vividly human behavior of his Japanese, the confusion in the minds of the young generation about their duties, their chances in life. The extremes of poverty and industrialism in Tokyo, the meaningless political suicides, the continual troop movements toward Manchuria, are keenly described. Despite several soft episodes and what will seem to many readers an over-facile ending, the novel has the steady strength of an almost reportorial reality...