Word: britain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very shortly Senator Johnson's chortle died in his throat. Secretary of State Hull emerged from a conference with President Roosevelt to announce, in diplomatic language as placid as its true import was severe, that the U. S. would now follow Britain's gesture of appeasement with one of menace. Even as the U. S. fleet was moved back to the Pacific at a moment when Britain needed all her available sea power in European waters (TIME, April 24), so now the U. S., as Britain backed up to ease tension in China, stepped forward threatening a thrust...
...Republican such a good break so Secretary Hull made the denunciation off the State Department's own bat, suddenly dramatically, after dinner one evening in time to catch the next morning's front pages. Immediate foreign effect was to shrink Japan's swelled head over making Britain knuckle under and to start Japan fuming worriedly about her source of war materials after next January when the U. S. embargoes could be voted...
...reserve of selfdiscipline, to remain calm and optimistic. The U.S., it was argued, would probably not dare impose a trade embargo. If the worst happened, Japan could prepare for it in the next six months. And early this week anti-U.S. posters appeared in Tokyo streets, announced: "Britain, America and Russia are our common enemy...
...Great Britain the Government's pleasure was mixed with regret that the U.S. had not gone into action sooner. For earlier in the week at Tokyo, Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie had conceded to Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita recognition of "hostilities on a large scale" and the "special requirements of the Japanese forces in China." Although Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain disagreed, to almost everybody else Great Britain had taken a diplomatic licking...
...League of Nations commitments. What the U.S. action did was to encourage the British Government to put brakes on further concessions to Japan. The Tokyo talks between Negotiators Sir Robert and Arita reached a crucial stage. Japan demanded as the price of raising the Tientsin blockade that Great Britain cease supporting Chinese currency and turn over to her the Chinese silver stocks deposited in British Concessions. On this point Mr. Chamberlain has said that he would never yield. Last week, with the U.S. throwing a scare into the Japanese, concession seemed out of the question, even if it meant breaking...