Word: asia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...openly admits it." (See p. 17.) The Chancellor, having thus pinched the sorest point he could find, devoted a conciliatory part of his speech to announcing that: 1) Germany extends diplomatic recognition to the Empire of Manchukuo and assures Japan that the Fatherland wants no territory in Eastern Asia; 2) Germany has no territorial designs upon France or Spain and is "proud" of the 1934 pact by which Germany and Poland continue to respect each other's rights and interests, "even in Danzig"; 3) as to Austria...
Slender, bushy-haired William Montgomery McGovern, 40, Northwestern's famed professor of political science, had brought back from the Orient the research to complete a book, The Empires of Central Asia, on which he has been working seven years and whose first volume will be published in April. He was also primed with new learning for his courses on Asia...
...Atlantic"; and that if, on the contrary, "Congress intends to provide defense for the American domain of interest in this hemisphere, it should make corresponding alterations in the President's program." Historian Beard called for a foreign policy of "abstaining from the quarrels of Europe and Asia, avoiding all gratuitous advice and insults to foreign governments, and defending the continental home of the U. S. and adjacent waters," pointed out that "the idea of Germany, Italy or Japan sending a fleet of battleships conveying 500,000 soldiers across the seas in majestic array is simply fantastic. . . ." Gist...
...favor neutrality in Asia and Spain, but deplore the suppression of Christianity there. We approve the President's policy of maintaining a large navy, and we favor a large merchant marine...
...Hirota devoted to China its special weight. Victorians had their devils, and Mr. Hirota did not conceal his horror at the fact that "members of the Communist International have penetrated all classes of the Chinese, destroying the social order of the country and endangering the stability of East Asia!" He found it "most lamentable . . . for the sake of the rest of Asia as a whole, as well as for the people of China" that the Chinese Government of Generalissimo Chiang have been "unable to act wisely and well with calm judgment but . . . are even now calling for prolonged resistance, regardless...