Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was no attempt on the part of the Kremlin to suggest that any of the eight dead generals were Trotskyists. The charge was simply that they had sold information to a "foreign power." Japan and Germany are the only two powers conceivably in the market for Russian military secrets, and of these Nazi Germany is closest to Moscow. Anti-Soviet rumor factories in Warsaw, Riga and Berlin quickly spread stories of abortive Red Army mutinies in a dozen districts, bloody street riots, even the assassination of Nazi Ambassador Friedrich Werner Graf von der Schulenburg...
Fortnight ago Fumitaka Konoye, 22, son of Japan's new Premier, made the world press by being elected captain of Princeton's golf team (TIME, June 14). Last week Princess Yori, 6, third daughter of Japan's Emperor, had a picture of herself relay racing at the Peeress' School printed in the New York Times. Captioned the Times: A JAPANESE PRINCESS MAKES THE TEAM...
...Comparable figures according to estimates in the Aircraft Yearbook for 1937: Japan, 2,000; U. S., 2,200; Germany, 3,000; Italy, 3,200; France, 3,600; England...
Elected captain of Princeton University's golf team was Fumitaka Konoye, 22, class of 1938, son of Japan's new Premier, Prince Fumimaro Konoye. Short, stocky, usually laughing, Son Konoye is golf champion of Princeton, speaks perfect English (including slang). Next to golf his best sports are boxing and riding. He is majoring in politics, also likes Spanish, music, psychology. Proposed career: Diplomacy. His room in Pyne Hall, where he lives with Stuart Aitkin of Bala, Pa., is plastered with cartoons from Esquire...
...given the addresses of the President and the President Emeritus of the University, of the President of the United States, and the Prime Minister of Great Britain, of he Tercentenary Historian and the La-in Orator, of guests from Paris, Oxford, end Cambridge, the two Americas, China, and Japan...