Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Settlement. An awkward Latin American wrinkle this year has been the bitter renewal of the eleven-year-old U. S.-Mexican quarrel over agrarian land expropriations. Last week. Secretary Hull released a cordial exchange of notes with Mexican Foreign Minister Eduardo Hay, embodying a settlement...
...Downing Street it was said that Mr. Chamberlain will not take to Paris any retinue of British Foreign Office experts. Experts of the French Foreign Office expected to be left to twirl their thumbs by M. Daladier. To a great extent Munich was the product of "personal diplomacy" conducted by the Big Four- this being European for U. S. "shirtsleeve diplomacy." Shoved into the background last week, British and French experts, many of whom are "pipe lines" to favorite correspondents, hinted that Chamberlain and Daladier would probably discuss...
Meanwhile the Premier seemed to have largely wasted in irresolution the decree powers which he might have used. The overwhelming vote of confidence in his foreign policy which he received after his return from Munich still stood, however. Meetings last week of the General Councils in all French districts ended in nearly all cases with senators, deputies and mayors voting approval of the Government's foreign and internal policies. Munich is over the French Chamber dam, but the Premier will be savagely attacked when the Chamber reconvenes for his final break at Marseille with the Communists and for what...
Japanese statesmen tend to become highly intoxicated on moderate victories. Last week the fall of Canton and Hankow acted on Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye and the Japanese Foreign Office like a triple round of old-fashioneds at a meeting of a Browning Club. It is no new thing for Japanese jingoes outside the Cabinet to boast that in a few years Japan will kick the West out of the East, but for the Premier and Foreign Office to go so far as they went in Tokyo last week was unprecedented...
This sounded to Occidentals who know the Orient as if Japan proposes to slam the "Open Door" to Occidental trade with China, hog it herself, and renounce the Washington Nine Power Treaty of 1922. In confirmation of these fears the Japanese Foreign Office official spokesman declared in Tokyo: "Japan considers the Nine Power Treaty obsolete or 'dead.' Whether we will denounce it or withdraw has not yet been decided. The [Japanese] Government is examining the advantages of creation of a Tri-Power Pact [of Japan, Manchukuo and China...