Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan for erecting the edifice of peace in the Far East," keynoted Count Uchida, "should be based upon recognition that the constructive force of Japan is the mainstay of tranquillity in this part of the world...
...That Japan's custodianship of Manchukuo (i. e. of formerly Chinese territory northeast of the Great Wall) is "a new and effective guarantee that has been established for the maintenance of peace in the Far East" with "universal advantage thereby accruing to the peoples of the world" including "Chinese themselves." ¶ That Japan constitutes herself the defender of the Far East against Soviet encroachment, for "should the Red movement . . . gain in strength as a result of Chino-Russian rapprochement that would be a serious menace to peace in the Orient, against which Japan must certainly be on guard...
...That Japan finds the Great Powers' doctrine of the "open door" in the Far East to have been nullified by events: "We see that all countries are busily engaged in erecting artificial trade barriers. ... As a result of this policy of the closed door, which is now practiced every- where in trade and industry, the universally cherished principle of freedom of trade has been entirely reversed...
Thus the world was presented last week with a "Uchida Doctrine"-basically a pretension by the Japanese Government that they are competent to judge, without assistance from the West, what is best for the East. In Geneva last week Count Uchida's diplomats applied his principle. Acting on instructions from Tokyo, they refused point blank a formula for conciliation between China and Japan worked out by the League Committee of Nineteen who proposed to set up a League board of arbiters on which the U. S. and Russia would sit by invitation. Japan, so her Geneva diplomats said, remains...
Loudest Monarchist cheers greeted Count Eulenberg, leader of East Prussia's "Steel Helmets" (War Veterans). "The German Republic," said Count Eulenberg, "is like an African Negro who struts about in a high silk hat, celluloid cuffs and with a red parasol-thinking he's a civilized gentleman! . . . [Guffaws] There is no better capital investment, my friends, than a bright and shining sword [cheers]. . . . Bread comes through the sword...