Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among other subjects are a survey of music, great modern philosophers, organization and control of industry, astronomy, the American Constitution, foreign languages, writing for publication, the Civil War and Reconstruction, introductory psychology, and sociology...
Last week, reports from U. S. Army circles in Washington gave credence to contentions that the Barcelona raids had also been experimental. The new bomb, it was said, was a closely guarded German military secret. All that foreign military attachés in Leftist Spain had learned from a study of its fragments was that it was filled with exploding liquid air, was made of a material more durable and lighter than aluminum...
...producing El Salvador. Last week, in belated appreciation of El Salvador's gesture, made in March 1934 owl-eyed, thick-lipped Manchukuoan Emperor Kang Teh was graciously pleased to decorate El Salvador's Strong Man, swart, curly-haired President General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez. Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Araujo and the Salvadorean Consul General in Tokyo, León Siguenza...
Little does it matter to spurned Manchukuo that many a chancellery believes that El Salvador first recognized the puppet state by mistake. The story goes that on the day that Henry Pu Yi became Emperor Kang Teh, his Minister of Foreign Relations sent an announcement to all foreign offices. Since the League of Nations, to which El Salvador then belonged, had passed a resolution binding all League members to nonrecognition, the foreign offices of these nations ignored the announcement. But in El Salvador a sleepy under secretary in the Foreign Ministry, assuming that diplomatic courtesy demanded a reply, answered with...
Last week at an international Group houseparty in Interlaken, Switzerland gathered 2,000 Groupers from 40 nations. Though Oxford Group publicity (increasingly well-organized) featured such leaders as Foreign Minister J. A. N. Patijn of The Netherlands and Parliament President Carl J. Hambro of Norway-scheduled to speak at Interlaken-it w'as careful not to ignore the lowly-born. One delegate to the assembly was Labor Leader Todd Sloan, 62, onetime London dock hand, to Oxford Groupers a "radical agitator" now reformed. In clearest terms he stated Buchmanism's new, grown-up policy: "In the moral rearmament...