Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Asia? Japanese Premier Prince Fuminaro Konoye journeyed to the Empire's national shrines and prayed last week for "restoration of Peace." In a loquacious interview with Japanese correspondents he envisioned peace under a sort of United States of Asia, a lineup of Japan, China and Manchukuo v. the West. Meanwhile General Kazushige Ugaki, one of Japan's longtime Privy Councilors, mentioned prominently last spring as candidate for Premier, attempted to meet squarely the incredulity with which white men greet Japanese claims to be fighting China so that the two countries can become firm friends, even allies...
...addressed to anyone, A Report covers twelve typewritten pages with a historical summary in which Japan and China are pictured as entangled in difficulties such that "solution can be achieved only by the co-operation of all countries interested in the Far East...
Cheering last week for the expected victory of the Stalin regime at the polls was Premier Prince Konoye of Japan. "If the results of the Russian election support the regime, trouble will not occur," beamed the Prince. "But if Stalin is upset it is impossible to say what may happen." Despite constant Soviet & Communist press uproar against "Fascist Japan," the Prince seemed confident that such help as thrifty Stalin gives China will be as inadequate as that he has given the Spanish Leftists. Soviet bombers arrived in China in considerable numbers and went into action last week...
...Chicago A Century of Progress, the Administration Building is showily modern, as apparently will be most of some 350 other projected buildings which eventually will jam the site's 1,200 acres. Most of the New York Fair's space has already been let and last week Japan contracted to rent 10,000 sq. ft., Russia 110,000 and Hungary 36,000. Virtually all nations are expected. Attendance is estimated at 40,000,000 first year, 24,000,000 the second. When it is all over and the debentures have been paid off, President Whalen and associates expect...
...attractiveness of this line of solution to the crisis caused by German expansion hides the great difficulties of the scheme. The first obstacle to the plan is the natural unwillingness of the Colonial Powers in individuo to give up land to Germany. Japan, Australia, Belgium, and the British Admiralty have already expressed sharp opinions on this point. A more fundamental obstacle is the doubt whether Germany's ambitions, which are predominantly for Teutonic unity and supremacy in Eastern Europe, can be permanently satisfied by stretches of jungle. In Mein Kampf Hitler puts his colonial aims as a poor second...