Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile press officers of His Majesty's Government told correspondents that Britain last week certainly had no intention of joining the anti-Communist pact of Germany and Japan, under Article II of which non-Communist States are invited to join. This much relieved Socialist Premier Leon Blum of France. It was understood that the position of both London and Paris was substantially covered by French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos when he announced last week: "The accord of Germany and Japan is inspired by a crusading spirit which France, like England and all countries desirous of peace, refuses to accept...
...handling of the new Treaty. It had been negotiated with great secrecy for some 18 months, and yet it leaked out of the Japanese Foreign Office just a few days before Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff was to have signed a Russo-Japanese fishing treaty highly favorable to Japan (TIME, Nov. 30). Of course Comrade Litvinoff refused to sign this treaty when he heard about the anti-Communist pact, and last week members of the Japanese Privy Council, too angry to be discreet, blabbed that the Japanese Foreign Minister had himself unwittingly blabbed the secret in a conversation with...
...notes of caution sounded by large Tokyo newspapers with Big Business connections. Of these Nichi Nichi, the boldest, said: "We heartily welcome friendship with Germany, but we feel as though we are running after a fly with a hatchet if the agreement is aimed only against the Communist International. Japan need not stand isolated. Let Japan make friends as fast as she can. But it would be better not to make lukewarm friends at the expense of making red-hot enemies...
...England eagerly seizes the extended yellow hand [of Japan] and cultivates an alliance which, from the racial point of view, is perhaps indefensible but whieh viewed from the national-political angle, offers the sole possibility of strengthening Britain's world position in the face of the ever more powerful American continent...
Foreign Minister Litvinoy of Russia has shown himself fully cognizant of the Japanese moves and, very recently, breather words of fire against the Soviet's enemies. At the same time, it seems unlikely that Japan can do anything but assume a more aggressive role. An inspection of the world's "post-war diplomacy" reveals strong alliances between Japan and Germany, Russia and France, and thence, more tenuous "understandings" with other European countries. It is most unpleasant to contemplate, but it is necessary to realize that Japan has once again set her war machine in motion...