Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, if Ambassador Joe Kennedy's speech in London last fortnight led anyone to think that President Roosevelt approved a do-nothing policy regarding foreign militarists and their designs, the President last week made his position clear by a series of performances...
...foreign and native advisers of Generalissimo Chiang have agreed from the first with his policy of using the best of his troops (those drilled by German officers before these were recalled by Hitler) mainly to herd hundreds of thousands of Chinese provincial troops toward the Japanese and prevent those who wished to escape from escaping. After the Japanese occupied Shanghai they found many dead Chinese machine gunners handcuffed to their guns. (The Chinese explanation: "They handcuffed themselves.") Neutral correspondents estimate at about 175,000 the number of Chinese second grade troops killed at Shanghai, have reported that although some...
Shoulders were promptly shrugged in Paris at the French Foreign Office. Its official spokesman said off the record that no such traffic exists. That it does exist no serious correspondent or commentator on the Far East has questioned for many months...
Japan is not in the habit of doing much rattling before she strikes. Thus French Navy and Colonial officials were gravely alarmed when the official spokesman of the Japanese Foreign Office said on the record: "Japan might be compelled in self-defense to take such measures as she deems necessary...
...easy to pick her out. No mistaking her for someone's secretary. She looks fresh and eager, with her saucy had and sleek fur coat. He watches her face as it searches the crowd anxiously. The expression is too good to miss. After all, this is a foreign city to her. Then she spies him, and Vag smiles a really happy smile. It has been a long, exam-filled week, but now at long last she stands there in front of him. Smoke swirls around them...