Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...countrymen, once cooperated with that intense Chinese patriot Sun Yatsen, "Founder of the Chinese Republic," to promote "Pan-Asianism" in China. Though this credo was directed against China's National Government as well as against Russia, Matsui was shrewd enough to fool a good many naturally-cautious Chinese, was received with open arms wherever he went. Now his job is not to fool them but to fight them...
...superlatives of friends and enemies alike. W?here biographers have struck a snag has been in trying to make convincing a personality to justify these tributes. Latest try is Alfred H. Bill's Astrophel. Written in a half-scholarly, half-popular vein, it adds only the most cautious speculation to the known facts; its main contribution is a closely-woven background of the times, the author's enthusiasm for his subject...
Bedseat Driving. Seated in his bed at Tokyo last week, the Premier of Japan, astute and cautious Prince Fumimaro Konoye, gave out that he was "suffering from insomnia." Actually he was conducting the difficult affairs of the Empire in a manner which afforded maximum protection from Japanese super-militarists, zealots of such stop-at-nothing kidney that they have murdered a total of three Premiers of Japan...
...They faced obstacles too great to overcome," said cautious Cosmo Gordon Lang, "and it is not for us to comment on these obstacles." But to inquire, take counsel, an I commiserate over what has become a dramatic change of tide in the affairs of Church & State were precisely why most of the delegates were there...
...besides the one at Monroe. This really alarmed the Governors of the States concerned. The battle at Monroe had shown what might happen if citizens and unionists were permitted to fight it out. The prospect stirred two Governors who had previously kept their hands carefully in their pockets, into cautious action. In Indiana, Governor Clifford Townsend called meetings of steel operators and union leaders to see whether he could not settle the strike at Inland and Youngstown plants close to the Illinois line. This gesture accomplished nothing and Indiana's Governor pondered calling the Governors of Illinois, Michigan...