Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Japan has not formally declared war on China, under international law the Japanese have no right to interfere with foreign China-bound shipping. Lawful or not, however, Japan last week assumed that right and proceeded to stop on the high seas not only a British liner and a French freighter but, what was more remarkable, a German ship...
Stronger-than-usual British and French protests were lodged at Tokyo's Foreign Office. Embarrassed more than angered were the Germans, associates of Japan in the anti-Comintern Pact, but they also protested. While by week's end the Japanese had given no official answer, her Navy spokesman at Shanghai announced that Japan would search for "military supplies" any ship operating within 200 miles of the Chinese coast. The spokesman added: "It is not a question of rights, but of what the Japanese Naval authorities demand...
...Church, split off by slavery in 1861, to rejoin it. It approved a concordat, drawn up last year by Presbyterian and Episcopal commissions, for cooperation between the two churches, beginning in local congregations (TIME, Feb. 6). As Moderator of the Presbyterian Church the Assembly elected a man from the foreign mission field, where the urge toward church unity is strongest. Dr. Sam Higginbottom, third layman to head the Church, is president of India's Allahabad Christian College, and rated the ablest agricultural missionary in the world...
Said the New York Times: "If our international broadcast programs are to be censored so that they shall not offend this or that foreign government, it is only a step to the argument that it is at least as desirable to censor our domestic programs so that they shall not offend our own Government...
...August 1938 (after reputedly picking up $625,000 for himself and associates in a merger of Pennsylvania Airlines & Transport Co. and Central Airlines Inc.), Janas & Associates acquired control of Canadian Colonial, made Janas president. With U. S. Foreign Air Mail Contract No. i Sigmund Janas put the operating methods of successful American Airlines (TIME, May 22) to work. His DC-2's were flown by American's pilots, overhauled by American's mechanics, dispatched by American's radio operators...