Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years a clerk and minor official in the State Department. Secretary Hull was still playing chess with his Department. Having recently consolidated his Eastern and Western European Divisions into one Division of European Affairs, he called in as new chief, J. Pierrepont Moffat, son-in-law of Ambassador to Japan Joseph Clark Grew, from his Consulate at Sydney. For James Clement Dunn was created an important new post, adviser on political relations...
...hastened 500 Japanese with machine guns and light artillery to Peiping's Chengyang Gate. The outer gate opened and in rushed about 250 Japanese. Suddenly the outer gate closed, trapping the Japanese between the outer and inner gates and the Chinese flung hand grenades among the trapped. With Japan roaring at this "treachery" and China as stubborn as ever there loomed this week the threat of fair-sized war in North China...
...Variety last week, this news item appeared under the headline, "Poor Butterfly Gets Jap Rewrite and Modernization; Par to Produce?" Variety's Tokyo correspondent evidently considered it unnecessary to mention that in addition to being a W. K. (well-known) conductor, Viscount Konoye is also brother of Japan's new Premier, Prince Fumimaro Konoye. In Tokyo the Premier's brother's new Butterfly caused no commotion at all. This was because Viscount Konoye, whose family has assimilated easygoing Western ways and whose nephew is captain of Princeton's golf team, scandalized Tokyo society so thoroughly...
...school sees Stalin as ultimately behind Chiang and wants to make an end of half measures, but Japanese "Liberals" like the Premier see more wisdom in taking any number of delicate bites at the Chinese cherry. If now Generalissimo Chiang, should really hurl China's whole force against Japan, with Russian cheers behind him, the bedseat-driving Premier would be genuinely dismayed. He hopes with "Liberal" fervor that he may enable the Son-of-Heaven to rise over North China without undue bloodshed and not upsettingly soon...
This week Chinese Dictator Chiang at last made his first public statement on the current Sino-Japanese crisis. "Japan will have to decide whether these clashes will result in a major war between Japan and China. If we allow one inch more of our territory to be lost we will be guilty of an unpardonable offense against our race...