Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soviet newspaper readers last week were bug-eyed at a trial in Manchukuo which seemed to them as deliberate a miscarriage of justice as the Moscow Old Bolsheviks Trials must have seemed to Manchukuoan Emperor Kang Te, Japan's bland puppet. To Red Russians there is nowhere a more detestable body of men than the "White Guards" in Manchukuo, a group of ex-Tsarist soldiers, aristocrats and riff-raff who live just outside the Soviet Union border, expecting momentarily and scheming year after year for "the collapse of Bolshevism...
...abridged pamphlet form, the Dictator's diary was distributed to all Kuomintang delegates with ironclad injunctions to secrecy. It was supposed to prove to the Kuomintang, just as it was previously supposed to have proved to Kidnapper Chang, that the Kidnappee-Dictator never was a sell-out to Japan but in his daily thoughts and deeds is a true, brave Chinese. Dictator & Mme Chiang made their first joint world radio broadcast last week, she in flawless Eng lish, he in Chinese. Static made it diffi cult to gather more than that they are still strong for their famed...
...Life Movement broadcasting was to sound out the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee thoroughly as to whether or not in 1937 Nanking should end its ten-year tiff with the Soviets and team up with Moscow once more, this time for aid in a Chinese war with Japan...
...widow, who all these years has maintained her Moscow contacts and who is after all the sister-in-law of the Dictator, sounded off at Shanghai thus: "Some of China's political leaders are victims of the fear-of-Japan sickness! . . . Today Japan is incapable of waging a long war because the Japanese people oppose war and their politicians are in revolt against the army. . . . Japan is technically backward and numerically inferior and the decisive factor is that the Chinese people are now ready to fight to a finish...
...Ward broke her connection with the school six years ago but it still thrives with a faculty of ten, enrollment of 125. Graduates have already gone as far as Japan and Australia to teach the proper way to sing plain song. Mother Georgia Stevens, the school's director, is also a convert. She is widely known for her music textbooks for children, hopes some day to make the boys in her school sing as well as the girls...