Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...latest reports from China, pretty much everyone as well as Japan was trying to horn in on the kidnapping, and Sian was becoming almost a forum. Expected momentarily by air was Mr. Soong. It was rumored that Mme Chiang was coming. The North China satrap Marshal Yen Hsi-shan was already represented. Other Chinese satraps were rushing their ''advisers" to Sian. If kidnapped Dictator Chiang was still alive, he had an unrivaled opportunity to show his prowess in Leadership...
...Chiang apparently was of the opinion that Dr. Kung, in trying to race the Communists to Sian with his Government troops, was likely to upset Kidnapper Chang so much that he would murder her husband instead of joining up with the Dictator in a deal to fight Japan. It was rather tactless for Dr. Kung to say of her husband in an official broadcast by the Acting Premier last week, "While we are all anxious that Generalissimo Chiang may be rescued . . . our attitude is that the personal safety of one man should not be allowed to interfere. . . . It gives...
...whether Dictator Chiang had procrastinated just long enough, not quite long enough, or too long and "the Morgan of China" (although his position actually is more like that of Dr. Schacht in Germany) is in a better position to gauge Chinese public opinion, world opinion and the situation in Japan than is almost any other Chinese, including Little Sister and her husband Chiang...
Bomb Tokyo? Lead China? Tokyo's queasiest fear this week was lest Mr. T. V. Soong should judge Japan to be in such an economic and political spot that now is actually the best time for China to go to war. Japanese respect the judgment of Mr. Soong and if he was for war then they could be sure they were hearing thunder on the Left, sure that Stalin was going to back China, panic-stricken lest at any hour Soviet air squadrons from Vladivostok appear and bomb Tokyo with no preliminary declaration of war. Japan played just that...
...Imperial Japanese Government, sorely uncertain this week, resorted to bluster. Tokyo Foreign Minister Arita did his best to intimidate acting Premier Kung with threats to the effect that Japan "demanded" no terms be made with Kidnapper Chang of a nature unfavorable to Japan...