Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haven the Crimson representatives, Cecil D. Elfenbein '38, Victor Vaughan '40, and F. Welch Peel '39, lost a 2-1 decision by the judges on the negative side before 100 listeners. The chief arguments hinged on a denouncement of President Roosevelt for partisanship against Japan...
Looking at the situations inside the map of Europe, Mr. Wells thought that Germany, Italy, and Japan must all have "strong liberal elements," although pretty well submerged at the present moment. He was inclined to believe that Russia had more solidity of opinion than the other three countries...
...British flagship in Shanghai waters should be sunk, or if General Telfer-Smollett or Admiral Yarnell should be killed, it might mean more to staggering China than the Nine-Power Conference which meets at Brussels next week. Japan last week refused to attend, and so did Germany. Japanese took the conduct of General Telfer-Smollett as proving this up to the hilt, claimed to have found in the captured Alamo quantities of "fresh food which could only have been smuggled in from the British." Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa this week was so boiling mad on his flagship at Shanghai that...
...Maisky and at the British Foreign Office that a struggle was going on in Moscow to dissuade Dictator Stalin from what was said to be his preference for withdrawing Russia entirely from the Non-intervention Committee and even refusing to participate in the Nine-Power Conference on China and Japan soon to meet at Brussels. Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinoff, whose office is not in the Kremlin and who is not especially close to the Dictator, was said to be urging strongly that Russia keep her place at London and appear at Brussels. The British and French embassies in Moscow made...
...capita consumption: U. S. 25 Ib.; The Netherlands 24 Ib.; United Kingdom 20 Ib.; Japan 7 Ib.; Brazil 6.8 Ib.; world average 6.6 Ib.; Russia 5.7 Ib. (compared to less than 2 Ib. 20 years ago); British India, 4 oz.; China...