1919 Economic
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- The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers whole source · open book
The sharp British response at Amritsar in 1919, the Dutch imprisonment of Sukarno and other Indonesian nationalist leaders and breaking-up of the trade unions in the late 1920s, the firm French reaction to Tonkinese unrest at the intense agricultural development of rice and rubber, all testified to the residual power of European armies and weaponry.31 And the same could be said, of course, of Italy’s belated imperial thrust into Abyssinia in the mid-1930s.
chapter: The Postwar International Order