Word: antis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...khaki smocks or calico aprons-uniforms of the Women's Patriotic Society (750,000 members) and of the Women's Organization for National Defence (4,500,000 members). Their activities include Banzai parties for departing soldiers, visiting military hospitals to "comfort" the wounded, taking part in anti-British rallies...
These things might have taken place in China last week, but they did not. They happened twelve years ago, in March 1927. For anti-foreignism is nothing new in East Asia; what is new is the reason for it. In 1927 China was becoming a unified nation for the first time in its 5,000-year history. A young General named Chiang Kaishek, though still hardly more than an ambitious warlord, was beginning to make his people realize that yellow skin was not necessarily synonymous with low estate. The Russians, to promote world revolution, were also urging a China...
...anti-foreign movement rampant in China last week was very different. It burned low, and from the outside. Even the stupidest coolie knew that its sole purpose was to drive out white foreigners so that yellow foreigners could inherit the fat of the land. In each of last week's anti-foreign incidents the Japanese mailed fist was either bare or clenched within a Chinese glove...
...Japanese Consulate angrily demanded that British Consul H. D. Bryan "admit that British sailors [from the destroyer Tenedos] were involved in a riot" in which a Chinese was wounded, apologize, punish the sailors, guarantee that it would not happen again. The "riot" was a crowd of Chinese unenthusiastically shouting anti-British slogans and throwing stones at the British Consulate. Great Britain apologized...
...shook up the Cabinet and the Falange, now the only legal political organization in Spain. Already Minister of the Interior, Serrano Suñer became president of the policy-making Falangist Council and acquired the portfolios of Public Order, Sanitation and Health. His most potent rival within the Falange, anti-Italian, conservative Raimundo Fernández Cuesta, lost his jobs as Secretary of the Falange and Minister of Agriculture. An even more important scalp was that of Foreign Minister General Count Francisco Gómez Jordana, formerly the strongest Cabinet spokesman of the old Army point of view. The anti...