Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese Government, tonight extended its control to three more of the nation's defense areas." Mr. Belden went on to record "a general tendency which would give officials of the former Chinese Soviet Government . . . domination of almost the entire conduct of the struggle'' of China v. Japan. This was saying as plainly as Jack Belden could that the Government is going and has almost gone...
...almost" factor was provided by negotiations in Hankow last week between Generalissimo Chiang and the German Ambassador Dr. Oskar P. Trautmann. acting for Japan. News of these talks, although every effort had been made by Trautmann to keep them secret, was broken by dispatches from Hankow routed to the outside world via Moscow. What were said to be the "mild peace terms" being offered by Dr. Trautmann were then released at Tokyo. Japan asks China to pay the cost of the war; she asks the Chinese Government to repudiate Communism and accept Japanese advisers; China is then to recognize Manchukuo...
...Socialists, Trotskyites, Lovestonites and peace-at-any-price pacifists rallied behind the Oxford oath. To the support of "collective security" sprang the Communists and Roosevelt liberals, who declared only "positive action" by the U. S. could avert war. But all could agree on a personal boycott of Japan, and in the midst of the wrangle the delegates interrupted their recriminations, marched out on the snow-covered campus, lit matches to a pile of boxes. One girl kicked off her shoes, stripped the silk stockings off her legs and, standing bare-foot in the snow, hurled the stockings into the fire...
Chief target of anti-Japanese boycotts is raw silk, which makes up over half of Japan's exports to the U. S., and supplies 92% of the silk used here. Recently Manhattan boycotters staged an "anti-silk parade" and last week students from 150 universities danced in the snow around a bonfire on the Vassar College campus feeding silk stockings and ties to the flames...
Last year, during eleven months, the U. S. paid $91.500,000 for 49,200,000 pounds of raw silk, most of which was used in silk hosiery for women. When a college girl buys a pair of lisle or rayon stockings instead of silk she deprives Japan of exactly 10?, and probably is not aware that at the same time she is taking 21? out of the pockets of U.S. silk hosiery workers. U. S. cotton farmers and non-silk hosiery workers profit to a similar extent. Fearful of such dislocations, both A. F. of L. and C. 1.0. announced...