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Carrier Soryu fitting out at the Kure Naval Arsenal, Japan, early 1937	Portrait of Chen Lifu, Feb 1937

Students from Beiping presenting Chiang Kaishek a sword forged with funding donated by fellow students, auditorium of the Republic of China Military Academy, Nanjing, China, Feb 1937	HMS Apollo underway in the Atlantic Ocean off St. Johns, Virgin Islands, 2 Feb 1937

Hitler speaking to 15,000 rail workers from balcony of Reich Chancellery, 4 Feb 1937; Government Secretary Hans-Heinrich Lammers and Minister of Transport Julius Heinrich Dorpmüller next to Hitler	Launching ceremony of Admiral Hipper, Blohm und Voss shipyard, Hamburg, Germany, 6 Feb 1937; note Wilhelm Gustloff in background

President of the House of Peers of the Japanese Diet Fumimaro Konoe at a press conference after receiving orders to form a new government, Tekigaiso residence, Tokyo, Japan, 2 Jun 1937	Carriers Enterprise (left) and Yorktown (right) under construction at Newport News, Virginia, United States, 8 Feb 1937

President of Boy Scouts of America Walter Head, US President Franklin Roosevelt, and Chief Scout Executive James West at the Oval Office, White House, Washington DC, United States, 8 Feb 1937	Song Meiling and Chiang Kaishek at the grand opening of Overseas Chinese Hostel, Nanjing, China, 11 Feb 1937

TKS tankette in the Estonian anniversary parade, Tallinn, Estonia, 24 Feb 1937	Battleship Ise after her first reconstruction, Mar 1937

Hitler Youth members making their beds, Brieselang, Germany, Mar 1937	Ise, circa Mar 1937

Two B-17A bombers flying past Italian ocean liner Rex, Mar 1937	USS Ranger entering drydock at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, California, United States, 2 Mar 1937. This was the first occasion that a US aircraft carrier entered drydock with aircraft still aboard.

USS McDougal, 3 Mar 1937	Chiang Kaishek with Japanese ambassador Shigeru Kawagoe, Nanjing, China, 6 Mar 1937

Japanese Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe with his cabinet ministers, Tokyo, Japan, 7 Mar 1937; note Minister for Foreign Affairs Koki Hirota (left edge of photograph) and Minister for Navy Mitsumasa Yonai (rear row in naval uniform)	Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Chonghui (Wang Chung-hui) with German Ambassador to China Oskar Trautmann, Nanjing, China, 10 Mar 1937