Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the U. S. Navy steamed back into the news on Capitol Hill. The Senate Committee on Naval Affairs unanimously approved legislation to build the fighting fleet up to full treaty strength. Japan's warlike activities in the Far East were a large psychological factor in propelling the bill out to the Senate. An anxious state of mind was reflected in Secretary Stimson's hint that Japanese hostilities in China might justify a general abrogation of the Washington and London treaties limiting Naval Armament...
...years. Representative Vinson dropped his bill in January because of the Geneva Conference and the low state of Treasury finances. Fortnight ago, however, he took the House floor to announce a change of mind, to point a warning finger at the "crisis" in the Far East, to predict failure for the Geneva parley, to argue that naval shipbuilding during Depression would save the U. S. money, help relieve unemployment...
...Comrades! Soldiers! White Guards, assisted by separate bands of imperialists, are openly making plans to seize the Soviet interests in the Far East, but the peace policy of the Soviet Government remains unshakable and the Soviet will pursue it with the utmost persistence and will fight to the end in the cause of peace...
...occurring in Shanghai district. Japan has at present three divisions of troops or about 5,000 men in the immediate vicinity. Since Japan has all rights between Shanghai and the Yangtze river where the Woosung forte are located they are occupying the entire river line to the north and east against a line of Chinese troops drawn up parallel to the river...
...basis of relative merits and defects, the Model League of Nations would experience difficulty in justifying its existence. Its confinement to the intellectual east, a section of the country almost unanimous in its advocacy of American entrance into the League, will nullify whatever propagandist powers it may have, except for antagonizing opponents to the League. As a means for enlivening current events and broadening college thinking on international topics it offers less advantages and more possibilities for distorted conceptions than does the average debate...