Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Internal trouble in Japan rather than war may be the first storm to break in the Far East, said Professor G. N. Steiger of Simmons College in a talk yesterday afternoon at Brooks House before the Society of Harvard Dames. He devoted the first part of his address, entitled "Storm Signals in the Far East" to basic conditions in Russia, China, and Japan...
Russia, according to Steiger, has increased her military and economic position in the last few years, and her attitude towards Japan is less complacent than it has been. On the whole, however, the Soviets appear to be minding their own business and trying to develop their natural resources...
Steiger believes that Japan is faced with grave internal difficulties. The demands of the army have resulted in larger and larger budgets, and in an ever increasing deficit. This has meant a heavy burden of taxation, and the people are beginning to get stirred about...
...joint moral and political leadership of China, seemingly with the intention that Chinese capitalists in the coastal cities and the more or less bureaucratic statesmen of the Government at Nanking should awaken to the "advantages" of teaming up with the potent Chinese bandit Communist armies for war with Japan...
...Hopkins and Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson. N. Y.) have organized an expedition to study this little creature exhaustively for six months or more in its own scampering grounds. Some of the party sailed for Singapore last fortnight and the rest left Vancouver last week on the Empress of Japan. Base camps will be set up in Siamese valleys and Borneo jungles under the leadership of Harold Jefferson Coolidge. Harvard mammalogist and cousin of the late Calvin Coolidge...