Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over by a Chinese Communist army, and jittery Japanese continued to fear that the Premier's fantastic kidnapping and its fantastic sequels were largely a blind to distract world attention from a drawing together of Chiang's China and Stalin's Russia for united war on Japan...
...original aspects of the kidnapping (TIME, Dec. 21) were thus merely reappearing last week in fresh forms. The central reality behind all was merely that China has approached a point at which her leaders are considering open war with Japan, and they know that no Chinese leader can make even a partial success of such a war without Communist support from two sources:1) Chinese Communists and 2) the Soviet Union...
...still doubt the fundamental distinction which Palme Dutt draws between 1914 and 1936 in terms of the Soviet Union, the class struggle, and colonial nationalism: In 1914 Britain sat on the French side of the fence, France and Russia were aligned against Germany and Austria-Hungary, and Japan looked greedily at China and victoriously at Russia. Even Italy's role has not changed too greatly. The first world war ended within hailing distance of the world revolution, and it is reasonable to assume the second will come much closer, but on the facts of the case as they appear...
...Eastern Asia, ten years of butchering Communists and belaboring local satraps into submission were climaxed in 1936 by Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek when his China, for the first time, stopped yielding to Japan's more impossible demands and adopted a policy which could be called "strong" (TIME, Nov. 9). Premier Chiang might well have been Man of the Year had he not, at the zenith of his prestige, been suddenly kidnapped...
Unquestionably cashhe kidnappee must lead China into an immediate war with Japan (TIME, Dec. 21 et seq.)arrive in ostentatious military regalia. The Generalissimo changed to civilian clothes and flew ahead to Nanking, followed two hours later by the Young Marshal in a cheap Chinese cotton-lined robe, veritable sackcloth & ashes. The Generalissimo was met by China's elderly Puppet President Lin Sen and 200,000 cheering Nankingese. The kidnapper drove quietly through back streets to settle down as the house guest of Ransomer T. V. Soonganding out thousands of words evidently concocted by mutual agreement to dispose of China...