Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Then up rose Chinese Delegate Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo. "Now that the door to conciliation and mediation has been slammed in your face by the latest reply from the Japanese Government," Koo told the Conference, "will you not decide to withhold supplies of war materials and credits to Japan and extend aid to China? It is, in our opinion, the most modest way in which you can fulfill your obligations of helping to check Japanese aggression and uphold treaties...
...verge of resignation again." U. S. women's clubs, which have been cabling Ambassador Davis plea after plea for "Peace," were exhorted by a French observer at Brussels to save their cable money, persuade "American Womanhood" to switch from silk to cotton stockings, thus bankrupt silk-raising Japan, save China...
...Japan's new strategy of trying to nip off Shanghai and the tip of the Shanghai Peninsula by means of pincer armies closing in from North and South (TIME, Nov. 15), succeeded last week in relentless, smashing style. Long-eared Japanese Commander-in-Chief General Iwane Matsui helped his infantry pincers close by turning loose Japan's most potent naval and land artillery, hurled great projectiles screaming clear over the International Settlement to score hits on Chinese positions at as much as 7,500 yards (about four miles...
Long-eared General Matsui, victorious, was asked by correspondents if he would now attempt to press Japan's advance to capture the Chinese capital of Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, famed Nanking, some 200 miles up the Yangtze River from Shanghai. Said General Matsui softly: "You had better ask Chiang Kai-shek about future developments. Chiang is reported to have predicted a five-year war. Well, it might last that long. We do not know whether to go on to Nanking or not. It depends on Chiang...
...wars between China and Japan in the past,* a point has generally been reached when the morale of the less well-armed Chinese soldiery gave way and the Chinese Government sued for peace on the best terms it could get. The heavy reverses China has now suffered on all fronts, neutral Shanghai observers balanced this week against the fact that Japan has taken three times as long as she originally scheduled to capture Shanghai, the fact that in the four months of this war Japan has now spent as much as she spent on the whole Russo-Japanese...