Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russian's way of saying he means to put something off till tomorrow, the next day, for ten years. Seichas seemed to have taken over the leaden-footed Anglo-Soviet pact negotiations last week as talks between British special negotiator William Strang, British Ambassador Sir William Seeds and Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov dragged on day after day, added up, as far as the anxiously waiting world could see, to nothing...
...powerful Chinese Red Army, China was close to being an integrated nation-closer than at any time since the 18th Century, when the Manchus had ruled an empire that stretched from southern Burma to beyond Vladivostok. Moreover, native Chinese businessmen had begun to give not only European and American foreign devils but the despised Japanese "dwarf monkeys" real business competition in the treaty ports and the international settlement...
...Money War. For years Chinese patriots denounced the "treaty ports" and the international settlement where foreign devils maintained their own "extraterritorial" courts and police power. But today were it not for these international areas the Chinese would not be able to carry on as well as they do against the Japanese. The political capital of Chiang's Government is now far-off Chungking but for Westerners its financial capital is in the foreign enclaves, particularly Hong Kong and Shanghai. The Japanese are bitterly aware of this. They have not yet dared seize the international settlement of Shang...
...discount. This is not only an economic disadvantage but a loss of face. But even if the Japanese are able to clear the money-changers out of Tientsin, there remain Shanghai and the illegal black bourses in Tsingtao and other Chinese cities in which there are no foreign concessions or settlements. And if Shanghai were seized the legal black bourse could move to British-owned Hong Kong...
...Britain lent $25,000,000 to the Chinese to stabilize the Chinese dollar. With the Chinese treasury thus bolstered, the Japanese yen, whose value has been depreciated in the occupied areas for some time, actually sank below the value of the Chinese dollar. Moreover, the Japanese cannot get needed foreign exchange from China with which to buy planes, oil and scrap iron so long as deals on China's coastal soil are cleared through western treaty port banks...