Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...These figures include Manchuria, which the Great Powers still consider part of China under the "Stimson Doctrine/' although Japan considers it her puppet empire of Manchukuo...
This young man who is Foreign Minister of the Republic of Latvia has the clean-cut mien of an Arrow-Collar illustration. Latvia is just about as remote from Japan, geographically and in every other respect, as possible, and this fact in Geneva became important recently. The Dutch suddenly realized that their delegate was slated to be chairman of a League committee which must examine the aggressions of Japan, and, since The Netherlands East Indies are within easy striking distance of the Japanese Navy, the risk of heading such a committee was deemed too great for Queen Wilhelmina...
President Roosevelt last week significantly let the Munters Committee see his Chicago speech six hours before he made it. The Committee had by this time decided not to brand Japan as an "aggressor" and not to mention "war." Not even the President's candid show of partiality for China budged the Committee from its two nots, but after scanning Mr. Roosevelt's words it inserted in the motion it was drafting that "League members should refrain from taking any action which might have the effect of weakening China's power of resistance . . . and should also consider...
...boycott Japan," U. S. radio listeners were told by former Chinese Ambassador to the U. S. Dr. Alfred Sao-Ke Sze, broadcasting from Shanghai, "you will find you have contributed to the greatest single step of progress in history...
...Boycott Japan? In London last week New York Times Bureau Manager Ferdinand Kuhn Jr., after sounding out best contacts with His Majesty's Government, cabled: "An economic boycott of Japan appears at the moment to be ruled out, for the British Government will have none of it. Without in the least trying to minimize Mr. Roosevelt's speech, the British doubt that the President himself intended to encourage such a boycott when he spoke of a 'quarantine' of aggressor nations. The most that can be hoped for, in the British view, is another of those...