Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fitting an interchange as the triggers of a crossbow and a Mauser. Wang Chung-hui is a patriot, Wang Ching-wei a traitor. Patriot Wang is naive, legalistic, bureaucratic, in office (Foreign Minister). Traitor Wang is sophisticated, old-style, political, out of office (onetime Premier, waiting to become Japan's super-puppet...
...That is, Japan may return to the comfortable framework of the Anglo-Japanese alliance. That contingency, however, depends on the capacity of the British navy to continue to rule the seas...
...that one can safely say," he stated in conclusion, "is that the position of the two great neutrals likely to get into the war, Italy and Japan, will probably be in doubt until the military issue in the West becomes definitive...
...like Germany, Russia fears most the necessary of a fight on two fronts. So long as a large part of the Red Army is stationed in the newly acquired territory in Poland, it is unlikely that Russia will bring effective pressure on Japan to round out Soviet Far Eastern positions by taking Mauchukuo...
...Should Russia be able to relax vigilance in Poland, and again turn attention to the Far East," be went on, "we might ace another volte face in Japan's orientation...