Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan's activities in China, he said, can be explained by the triple formula of "food, face, and fear"--food for Japan's dense population; a sense of "face" that demands complete naval supremacy; and fear of growing Communism in her huge neighbor...
Economic and political sanctions, she said, were the means of stopping the Fascists and saving the 90 percent of the world which has peaceful intentions. Within eight months, she affirmed, Japan's war in China could be stopped...
...will save money; if ill founded, the government will lose an empire. Meanwhile, other Navy and War Department officials pointed out that the only warship ever sunk by planes was the Pantry, whose limited artillery prevented it from being a satisfactory experimental guinea pig; that if England, Italy and Japan knew battleships were worthless, they would not be building them as fast as possible...
...force. Acting as her own purchasing agent, Mme Chiang spent an estimated $20,000,000 for war planes, reputedly saved China at least an equal sum in "customary graft." One reason why the hotter-headed Chinese leaders finally persuaded cautious Generalissimo Chiang to engage in war with Japan was that they thought Mme Chiang's war planes were going to bomb Japanese cities...
...United States is supreme today in airplanes-supreme in quality and in numbers." Colonel Johnson declared "the numbers stand about as follows: U. S. (on hand and under construction) 16,000; France 11,000; Russia 10,000; Great Britain 9,000; Germany 8,000; Italy 7,000; Japan 7,000." Listeners knew he must be including every last U. S. airplane, from flivver to biggest Army bomber. They knew also that most airplane records for speed, distance and payload, despite Colonel Johnson's claim to "supremacy," are held by other countries. All this raised the old question: "What good...