Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Geneva in 1931 and of which the U. S. is a member be summoned to "resume its labors." What China hoped concretely to wangle, in the opinion of League officials, was a decision to bar members from granting credits for the sale of armaments to Japan. And diplomatically she might forestall any Japanese assertion of belligerent rights to search and seize merchant ships. All this added up to just about the ablest set of moves Chinese could possibly make to stir the moribund League to action, and stirring were the words of Dr. Wellington Koo, although he never once spoke...
...dispatches in which were argued the pros and cons of what it would be best for China to do-that is, how Dr. Koo and Dr. Quo could best put their case. The flattered correspondents and the Chinese diplomats soon agreed, among other things, that China must not accuse Japan of making "war" since such an accusation might well force President Roosevelt to invoke the Neutrality Act, and from this China would suffer far more than Japan. By the time the Assembly actually met this week, Dr. Koo and Dr. Quo had not only a "good press" but almost...
...such fools were Dr. Koo and Dr. Quo as to imagine Japan can be caused to accept a League "invitation" to rejoin the League for the express purpose of being chastised, but should Japan refuse. Article Seventeen is so drawn that Article Sixteen automatically is invoked and under this League States are supposed to punish the offender who goes to war by applying "Sanctions...
...just about everyone except Japanese apologists, the reasons why Japan acted when and as she did this year in China are three, and they are pikestaff plain: 1) Japan saw the U. S. adopt a Neutrality Act well-meaning but sufficiently cockeyed for experts to agree that its legal meshes would hamper China greatly, Japan scarcely at all; 2) Japan saw the Soviet war machine suddenly weakened by Stalin's shooting of its ablest commanders; 3) the Spanish Civil War and Mediterranean mixup have so tangled Great Britain that Japan does not fear today Far East intervention...
Given these three premises, opportunist Japan promptly drew her conclusion by invading China while the invading was better than it may be later, bad and bloody though...