Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reprisals: In London, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs R. A. Butler faced a House of Commons chagrined and angered by the blockade, announced the Government was considering "measures." The British Government issued a statement which still offered arbitration on the question of the four Chinese but which hinted darkly of possible reprisals if the Japanese refused to lift the blockade. The Cabinet met for two and a half hours, went over methods of economic retaliation. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes called Japan's action a "declaration of war against the British Empire." The New York...
...Toes. In choosing Tientsin for a trial of strength with the West the Japanese cleverly picked one of the foreign zones in China where the U. S. has least interests. In Tientsin there are two U. S. banks, 20 fur exporters, two real estate firms, two woolen mills and some U. S.-owned buildings, but the aggregate investment is computed at only about...
Stimson offered Britain U. S. collaboration in stopping the Japanese. Sir John Simon, the British Foreign Secretary, not only turned the offer down, but later, at Geneva, argued for "realism" and "flexibility" in applying the League of Nations Covenant against Japan. What the British then hoped was that the Japanese would turn northward from Manchuria and clash with the Soviet Union, leaving their huge investments in China (said to be worth $1,410,000,000) alone. Instead the Japanese marched southward, and last week Britain's diplomatic chickens of 1932 had come home to roost. Small comfort...
Rift between anti-appeasers in the British Foreign Office and Prime Minister Chamberlain reached near-scandalous proportions during the Munich Crisis. Some Foreign Office officials, the Prime Minister was certain", were even leaking confidential information to the press. After Munich some officials who handled press relations were suddenly shifted to other jobs, but Neville Chamberlain was by no means sure he had plugged all the leaks...
Last week in setting up the new Publicity Department of the Foreign Office, he moved to finish the plugging job he began last November by plugging in the shrewd conservative Earl of Perth as "general supervisor" of the Department, naming him "director-general designate" of a Ministry of Information into which the Publicity Department would be converted if war came. Groundwork for this wartime Ministry, Mr. Chamberlain revealed, was being laid by Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare (Hoare-Laval Deal...