Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan was to get the rest of the Island of Sakhalin, and the confessions made screamer headlines about "TROTSKYISTS TO GIVE JAPAN OIL FOR WAR WITH AMERICA...
...same thing that Trafalgar means to the English, to Russians, what Waterloo means to the French. Greatest naval battle since Trafalgar, and one of the four greatest of all time,* Tsushima (1905) was the knockout blow by which Admiral Togo won the Russo-Japanese War, set all Japan in a roar of Banzai! History has written down Togo as hero of the fight, but last week a footnote to history gave the other side of the story...
...first at 4 o'clock on "Three Chinese Communities", and the second at 8 o'clock on "The Chinese-Mongolian Borderlands". In the latter Professor Cressey will discuss the conflict around the great wall between nomad and agriculturist, and current political developments in the land where China, Japan, and Russia meet...
...Standard's oil fields on Bahrein Island in the Persian Gulf, Arabia and the Dutch East Indies. Standard got outlet for its oil, Texaco a source of supply for its distribution system East of Suez, in East Africa, South Africa, India, Dutch East Indies, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan. The combination of these two big U. S. companies now looms as the third big petroleum group outside the U. S., inferior only to Royal Dutch Shell and the Socony-Vacuum-Standard-of-New Jersey combination...
Canada leads the foreign countries with 45 students and China is no mean second with 32. Japan musters only 5, surpassed by 15 Englishmen, 12 Frenchmen, 11 Germans, and 6 Turks...