Word: asia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...promptly broke off negotiations concerning the safety of Britons and their property in China (TIME, Jan. 24); and took the unprecedented and insulting course of ignoring the British Government and cabling over its head an appeal to the British Labor Party. Chen declared that "the British decline in Far Asia" will continue "until British Labor is entrusted by England with the task . . . of substituting the statesmanship of peace and productive work for the [British] Tory statesmanship of imperialism, war and Byzantine glory." Churchill Explodes. Though the British Government could, of course, take no official notice of Chen's deliberate...
...ready to declare material warfare on the people of this nation. Where our children are willing to listen, they are taught the ways of the Third International. We find its hand clutching at the heart of our sister republic in the South. We find it stirring up trouble in Asia, in China, in Nicaragua. . . . In the face of this insidious propaganda within our own territory and in other nations it be hooves us to be vigilant...
...Secretary Wilbur never heard, for instance, of a corrupt church blocking the road which leads up form slavery in "our sister republic on the South", or of extra-territoriality acquired by the "right" of superior force in "Asia, in China, in Nicaragua." Mr. Wilbur may fool himself into thinking he can stop the wind by tilting at windmills. He will not fool history...
Statesmen Coolidge, Baldwin, Poincaré, Stresemann, even Mussolini, have invoked with respect to Mexico, Nicaragua, India, China, Tibet, Java and most of the earth's troubled lands, fear of all the spectre stands for. Asia is troubled by it, vaguely wondering if in loyalty to this presence perhaps lies union, strength and conquest...
...September and October, 1924, he went to Europe, visited automobile plants, asked questions of manufacturers and engineers, carefully inspected every car and body in the shows of London and Paris. Favorably impressed, President Erskine invited to Paris every Studebaker dealer and representative in Europe and some from Asia, gave a banquet, rose from his seat, fired at his agents a series of questions prepared by himself, received their answers in written form, took the answers back to the U. S., pondered them well. Then, for two years, Studebaker engineers and body designers pored over blueprints, utilized proving grounds-and produced...