Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cameron Forbes '92 will speak to the Freshmen class on "Spain Under General France" in the Upper Common Room of the Union at 7:30 O'clock tonight. Mr. Forbes, who has been United States Ambassador to Japan, and Governor-General of the Philippines, was a recent visitor in Spain as the guest of General Franco...
...only indication in Japan's strictly censored press that the Japanese Army was not faring well in China during the last two months-that it has even suffered defeats at the hands of the Chinese-has been an absence of victory announcements. Last week a badly needed Japanese victory was supplied when twelve Japanese warships, 20 warplanes and a landing party of 1,000 sailors and marines planted the Rising Sun flag on the important, poorly defended island of Amoy, in South China. While the capture of Amoy might mean that the Japanese were preparing for a push...
...only the alternatives of surrender or annihilation. Since this corridor is at least 100 miles long and never narrower than 45 miles, the Japanese claim was considered optimistic. The effective closing of the long western end of the Lunghai corridor seemed to military experts to be feasible only if Japan sent many thousands more soldiers to the area...
...present warfare in China is another stage in preparation for an attack on Russia," he asserted, for Japan wants Chinese raw materials, as well as a territorial wedge between China and the Soviets...
...defences along the Manchurian border. In addition to "Siberia's life-line," double tracked railway across the barrens, a second road has been constructed 200 miles further from the border. The Russian army has 400,000 men in the East, as well as 1500 planes within flying distance of Japan's industrial cities. Caches of Munitions and food are also ready for the Soviets...