Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Present navies of the U. S., Great Britain and Japan are still approximately what they were under the 5-5-3 treaties. But all three powers have scores of ships already abuilding or projected. The table below shows relative naval power at present and what it will probably be in the future. Britain's submarine program and most of Japan's plans are big secrets, hence the question marks. All three nations have overage ships, ships that are out of commission or demobilized. Figures in parentheses give the number of modern ships of each group actually in service...
Great Britain United States Japan Present Future Present Future Present Future Capital ships 15 25 15 (14) 22 10 (9) 13? Light Heavy cruisers cruisers 15 44 (26) 1 =: 18 (17) 19 17 (12) 17? 68 12 29 Destroyers '. 162 (89) 206 (48) 275 Submarines 54? (41) 86 (23) 116 Aircraft carriers...
...most desirable first step toward Prosperity, he reported, is "to bring together as soon as possible ... in ... a pact of economic collaboration . . . the principal economic powers . . . France, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Germany and Italy." Not excluding the Soviet Union or Japan or China, but obviously alive to many practical difficulties, M. van Zeeland would simply make a pact "embracing the largest possible number of states, and in any case open...
...Japanese it all seemed negligible compared to the slap Japan received last week when President Roosevelt announced his billion-dollar naval program (see p. 9). Must we assume," asked Tokyo's famed Asahi, "that the United States will no longer contribute toward Peace...
Under Joseph Stalin "more babies" is Russia's policy as it is of Germany, Italy, Japan (see p. 18). That the policy has incidental uses to Russian women appeared last week. Moscow newsorgans reported that a Soviet schoolteacher convicted of treason had "masked her treason for five years by the cunning ruse of having a child annually...