Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paper dared criticize what the Government was doing in China. While the General Staff met to discuss the advisability of sending an army to Shanghai, that inevitable accompaniment of every war, the Atrocity Story, began to burgeon in the Tokyo Press. (A Chinese had eaten a Japanese baby, etc. etc.) The Foreign Office published an official statement insisting that not a shot had been fired until Japanese marines were sniped by Chinese regulars. Meanwhile the Tokyo Asahi quietly announced that thousands of new jobs were open to Japanese in Manchuria and Mongolia. The South Manchuria Railway sent a message...
...requested that I discuss the Business and the Editorial departments. They really have little in common; in fact, the only way in which they are combined is that they are two boards for which competitions are open to Sophomores at the present time. Otherwise there is little similarity between them. I find it difficult indeed to visualize an editorial man, of the temperament of a Vagabond writer, for instance, handling shrewd business men or writing straightforward advertising copy; or seeing a business man turn from his adding machine to dictate an editorial on secondary schools. But, of course, one board...
...address the meeting as it was felt that, having traveled extensively in China and having produced many books on its affairs, he would be eminently capable of presenting that country's point of view. Professor Langer is a prominent authority on the League of Nations, and will probably discuss the chances of that body's declaring an economic boycott on Japanese imports and exports. Professor Hopper will probably bring in the question of the position of Russia as regards this crisis. He has said that many Russians regard the present trouble as the first step towards an ultimate struggle between...
What is this idea of scholarship which produces such illusions and permits girls and boys who have fifty years to live to bury themselves in books while the people who will be wholly out of the picture are listening to experts discuss the most vital and immediate matters with which they have only a tenuous and very temporary connection...
...England, according to reports, there is little excitement--less, it seems, than in the United States. Difference in the Eastern and Western interpretations of catastrophe makes what we might call war a bit of large-scale policing to the Orientals. It is intelligent to discuss the crisis in terms of proper proportion. It is unintelligent to become worked up over nothing more substantial than an impressively warlike front page, bearing antique military photographs and often pitifully weak news articles; all these appear under headlines that clearly stamp the issue at its true value...