Word: japanism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...added little to previous unofficial expressions of regret tendered just after the delivery of the first note from the U. S. For indemnities it referred Secretary Hull to the earlier note in which restitution had been freely promised. As its best guarantee that the "mistake" would not be repeated, Japan pointed out that "the recall of the Commander of the flying force [Teizo Mitsunami] has a significance of special importance," which, it was Minister Hirota's "fervent hope," would be appreciated...
...Secretary Hull quickly accepted it, merely calling attention to this difference of opinion in his reply. The State Department's note presumably closed the incident but made it apparent that a repetition might be much less easy to explain away. Secretary Hull also adroitly reminded Japan that, for its account of the "origins, causes and circumstances of the incident," the U. S. Government "relies on the report of findings of the court of enquiry of the United States Navy...
...then 600 miles down the Yangtze River to Shanghai ("The New York of China") and Nanking-was not primarily a great feat of arms. General Chiang had not yet developed many of his great qualities. He was almost an out-&-out puppet of the Soviet Union, but, as both Japan and Russia have found to their cost, no Chinese ever fully sells himself or China...
General Chiang was now master of South and Central China but many Kuomintang politicians denounced him as a Fascist or worse. With a characteristic gesture he resigned all his offices and went to Japan. There Chiang, the shrewd, hardheaded, hard-living, callous soldier who had made his way to power, proceeded to court pretty, educated, high-minded Soong Meiling. Her brother, Mr. T. V. Soong, today China's greatest financier, informed General Chiang as courteously as possible that a husband with concubines was scarcely acceptable as a suitor in the Chinese Christian family of Soong. Mei-ling...
...else that the New China was not yet ready to use her War Machine; that to fight would be to incur the catastrophic losses China has now suffered; that his Government would inevitably be driven from Nanking; that the hand of the Chinese Communists would be immensely strengthened-unless Japan's triumph should indeed be utter & complete. Knowing all this, Chiang Kai-shek up to the last possible moment counseled, as he had counseled for years, "any sacrifice should not be regarded as too costly!" providing it averted war with Japan...