Word: expansionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago Yosuke Matsuoka wrote in an essay: "If my country needs a statesman, I will be the statesman." He has been businessman, diplomat, foreign minister; always he has anticipated, with the mind of a lightning calculator, what it was that his country would need. He was an Asiatic expansionist before the Manchukuo Incident, a totalitarian seven years before the Konoye reorganization. The crew haircut, the round, boy's face, the carefree smile, the candor, the courtesy, the mystic organ-note of his speechifying, all mask the hard core of the opportunist who has made of himself what...
...second China war began and Mr. Matsuoka was made Cabinet advisory councilor in Prince Fumimaro Konoye's first Premiership. In March 1939 he again made one of his sudden resignations en route to better things, and reappeared in July 1940 as Foreign Minister. As an ardent expansionist and strong supporter of the Prince's plan for totalitarian one-party rule, he was Prince Konoye's choice...
...steel-capacity fight headed to a showdown this week. Washington's expansionist group wanted a 30,000,000-ton (35%) increase; the industry did not. Last week the industry looked to be having...
Security First has been Russia's policy since strong, expansionist states grew up on either side of her. When collective security failed, the Kremlin turned to an opportunistic, but no less consistent, policy of diverting aggression elsewhere. The Non-Aggression Pact with Germany turned Germany toward other enemies, has made Russia secure from German attack through a year and a half of war. Last fortnight's pact may mean security against Japan for longer. And by last fortnight Joseph Stalin must have feared a day would come when Hitler started screaming again for the Ukraine. Meanwhile there...
...Government, to give the railroads priority in steel, would have to curtail civilian sales & employment. This week Stettinius' materials division rushed work on its final steel report to be handed to the President when he returns. Meanwhile the National Resources Planning Board fortified the expansionist position with a steel report of its own. (Author: Louis Paradiso, under the direction of Gardiner C. Means.) Taking the long view of how much growing the U. S. has to do, it estimated pig-iron (and ferro-alloy), steel-ingot and rolling-mill capacity needed for full production at various levels of future...