Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significance. Japan's "big push" was accompanied by the bursting for the first time of stray Japanese shells in such fashion as to kill four British Tommies and wound six more by this week. Tommies had held their fire while General Telfer-Smollet flung himself flat and escaped a round of Japanese machine gun bullets fired at fleeting Chinese, but foreign tempers in Shanghai were so short that even U. S. Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell gave orders that U. S. forces in Shanghai, if attacked, were to fight back...
...line, strongly entrenched and fortified regardless of cost, and although the Japanese this week made a short advance west of Shanghai, crossing Soochow Creek under a smoke screen and strongly resisted by the Chinese, all indications favored weeks more of Shanghai warfare in such close quarters that every day Japan risked an incident which would plunge her into fighting with one or another Great Power. It was this which made the 45 sq. mi. taken at Shanghai last week more desperately important than 1,980 sq. mi. quietly taken by Japanese forces pressing down from North China last week, almost...
...action opens on Christmas Day and carries us through New Year's Eve at a time eighteen months after the beginning of the next world war. True to popular expectations, Germany, Italy and Japan are fighting England, France, and Russia. America is observing a costly neutrality, which is dragging her into demoralization and depression. According to the Christmas sermon of a sententious ex-senator, the nation is to be seen in minature in the family, particularly in the Garrison family, consisting of the aforesaid two brothers and sister-in-law, and several lesser figures. John Garrison runs the family business...
Disagreeing that China is responsible for hostilities, Wu placed the blame with the Japanese militarists and said that Japan was an obstacle to world peace. He quoted from the well known Tanaka Memorial to prove that Japanese imperialistic ambition was not limited to China alone but extended through the whole world, and declared that it was the duty of every citizen of the world "to stop Japan in her aggressiveness...
...predicted that if the United States allowed her to continue Japan would eventually menace American interests in the Far East, and said that this is another instance of the democratic ideal being in danger throughout the world...