Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after Japanese planes sank the U. S. gunboat Panay in the Yangtze River, Franklin Roosevelt summoned Secretary of State Cordell Hull to the White House, asked in no uncertain terms to have Japan's sacred Son of Heaven informed of the feelings of the President of the U. S. C. Major social event of the Presidential week was the Gridiron Club Banquet, at which the President's remarks are, by strict rule, completely off the record. Sharpest of the six skits written by Washington newspapermen concerned Associate Justice Hugo LaFayette Black of the Supreme Court who, unlike Chief...
...Shanghai last week Japanese Rear Admiral Tadao Honda fervently told U.S. correspondents: "If Japan had not gained anything else important in this undeclared war with China the struggle would have been worth its cost because of the clarification of Japanese-American relations and the banishment-which I hope is permanent-of dangerous distrusts and suspicions...
Before the week was out Franklin Roosevelt called Cordell Hull to the White House and directed him to demand that the Japanese Foreign Office inform Japan's sacred Emperor Hirohito-the divine Son of Heaven and 129th lineal descendant of the Sun Goddess who helped "produce the land and people of Japan"-that the President of the U. S. was shocked and concerned at Japan's behavior. For Japanese-American relations had not been so clarified as mealy-mouthed Admiral Honda believed, and they had reached a more dangerous pass than he might have cared to believe last...
...There was talk of persuading China's all but forgotten "Scholar War Lord" Marshal Wu Pei-fu to abandon permanently the Buddhist monastery into which he had long ago retired (TIME, April 16, 1928 et seq.), and which reports had him often leaving. A bird actually in Japan's hand was Mr. Wang Keh-min, much heard of in 1935 when he was Acting Chairman of the Peiping Political Council. At that time the Japanese forced Mr. Wang out and had the Council dissolved, explaining that he was not sufficiently pro-Japanese. This week they seemed to think...
Wishful thinking should not blind us to Japan's capacities. She may be expected to succeed, up to a certain point. The great danger is that Japan will succeed only half-way,--destroy in large areas the control of the Chinese nationalist government and yet lack the means to maintain really stable puppet governments. In short, the Sino-Japanese problem has barely been created. The one certainty is that trouble will continue in China for many years to come