Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan's closely censored newsorgans meanwhile filled their columns with reports of mutinous Red Army ferment in Siberia, announced that "several hundred Red Army officers and soldiers" had been overpowered by the secret police after "resisting arrest" in Vladivostok and were being shipped toward Moscow as prisoners on two trains. "The rest of the Soviet Far East army, as a result of these arrests, has been thrown into utter confusion!" crowed the Tokyo Nichi Nichi...
...empty bed of a local Chinese magistrate. Increasingly sharp fighting made it no clearer who were the "certain persons" who opened fire before the Japanese "fired first," but the Chinese Government at Nanking for the first time began acting as if it were ready for war with Japan...
...Michigan's grey and liberal Bishop Herman Page, the commission consists of sixteen churchmen and laymen including Colorado's Bishop Irving Peake Johnson, Missouri's Bishop William Scarlett, longtime Director of the Russell Sage Foundation John Mark Glenn, onetime (1917-21) U. S. Ambassador to Japan Roland Sletor Morris, and Justice Origen S. Seymour of the Connecticut Court of Common Pleas. Three years later the commission persuaded the Church to split Canon 41 for the first time, by permitting pastors to remarry a) the innocent party in a divorce for adultery, b) those who had secured annulments...
Homma who escorted Prince Chichibu at the Coronation, of George VI. Last week he arrived "disappointed in the Soviet Union generally. . . . Japan need have no fear of the Red Army. . . . The executions of several of its chiefs have seriously weakened it. ... The Red Army in fact is on the verge of collapse. It has been vastly over-rated...
...plane was on land or sea, south or north of Howland, the greatest rescue expedition in flying history speedily got under way at huge expense. From Hawaii at forced draft steamed the battleship Colorado, from San Diego four destroyers and the aircraft carrier Lexington with 72 planes, from Japan vessels of the Japanese fishing fleet. At week's end no one knew whether Miss Earhart was another Kingsford-Smith, who was lost forever in the Bay of Bengal, or another Ellsworth, who was found snug and happy in Antarctica after a two-month search which gave him more dramatic...