Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus, by leaving the entire initiative up to warm Franklin Roosevelt, cold Neville Chamberlain did his best to give Japan. Germany and Italy an impression that Britain will not be to blame for whatever ultimate difficulty the new Washington policy may cause them. The Prime Minister went out of his way to add: "We were sincerely rejoiced that it was found possible to come to an agreement with the Italian Government as to the patrolling of the Mediterranean by French, Italian and British warships [TIME, Oct. 4]. If we could once make real progress in the settlement of the Spanish...
...United Kingdom it would be good "dollar diplomacy" to join an economic boycott of Japan sure to benefit Britain's depressed textile industry, now hamstrung by Japanese competition, but as the London Daily Express asked: "Are those demanding Sanctions against Japan prepared to go to war to enforce them?" Mr. Roosevelt can figure on trying to "quarantine" only Japan, but should Britain fall in with this she may find the logic of her League connections driving her to also "quarantine" Italy and perhaps every other nation which has intervened in Spain or sent its nationals to fight there...
Fascist Triumvirate. In Japan, Germany and Italy prompt and angry reactions to the Chicago speech suggested that the President had gone a long way toward stinging these mutually friendly Fascist powers into a hard triumvirate. Probably prematurely, Japan's news agency Domei announced that at a call by the Italian Ambassador upon Japan's Foreign Office assurances were given of "Italy's sympathy and support in Japan's 'self-defense' campaign in China...
...When we say that the Europe of tomorrow will be Fascist we base this on facts, and particularly on new states, not only European, which have linked themselves with those which initiated the movement of recovery. There is no doubt, for example, that Japan is liberating herself from the parliamentary miasma which she acquired a few decades ago, and which today arrests her vital elan. We fully understand and justify this elan. The squeals of spinsters and the sermons of archbishops make us laugh...
Into the Japanese Navy office in Tokyo trotted a little woman. She laid several pieces of money on the counter as a contribution to Japan's war funds. Said she: "These are Admiral Yonai's teeth." Shocked underlings investigated, found she was the wife of a dentist, had obtained the money by selling gold from the teeth of Navy Minister Matsumasa Yonai after work done in her husband's office. Enthusiastic citizens of Durham, N. C. ("The Friendly City"), gave a dinner for American Tobacco President George Washington Hill, there to inspect his plant...