Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another date which official Italy chose to forget was the second anniversary (Nov. 6) of the now defunct anti-Comintern Pact. The Government exchanged no congratulatory notes with Co-signers Japan, Germany, Spain, Hungary, Manchukuo...
...live Comrade Stttttt. . . . Long live Comrade Stalin!" The long-suffering Premier last week had no trouble and in his secondary capacity as Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs made an extremely long and rambling state-of-the-world speech in which he ticked off Turkey, Germany, Great Britain and France, Japan, Finland and Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...Japan's little Premier, Nobuyuki Abe, is a definition of inconsistency. His breakfast begins by being Japanese (bean soup, pickled eggplant, rice) and ends Occidentally (soft-boiled eggs, a glass of milk). His house (suburban, neither big nor small) is typically that of a Japanese military man, but is cluttered by a very unmilitary hobby-scores of canaries and red sparrows in pretty cages. Premier Abe drinks a little but not much, smokes a little but not much, exercises a little but not much. He is a general, but he has never been...
Month ago Japan's senior statesmen drew this indecisive character-"blinking," as the Japanese say, "like a bull drawn into the sunlight from a dark stall"-out into the open to be Premier. He had an awful time making up his mind about a Cabinet; it took him 29½ hours, cost him 2,047 yen for 590 bottles of beer, three barrels of sake, 780 bottles of soft drinks, 910 box lunches, ten strings of dried cuttlefish and six telephones-all but the telephones consumed during conferences by eager candidates, hangers-on, advisers...
This very quality of indecision was just the reason why Nobuyuki Abe was chosen: he would be pliable. But those who chose him did not realize that under him the whole Government would degenerate into machinery for vacillation. Since U. S. Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew gave Japan a piece of the U. S. mind on Oct. 19, the Japanese have wavered worse than before...