Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeal especially to the Government to assist our Pacific and Far Eastern shipping!" cried Lord Lloyd. "The traffic between Bombay and Japan, not many years ago, was entirely British. Now it is 80% Japanese...
...permitted to join the anti-Communist forces of Chinese Premier and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in any Chinese province into which these may be sent (TIME, Nov. 9). To this demand China's Chang replied that, while it would be premature for China to grant such rights to Japan in all Chinese provinces, the Chinese Government would permit Japanese military co-operation in assisting it to exterminate Communism and banditry in the Chinese provinces of Manchuria, Jehol, East Hopei and Northern Chahar. The point of this uproarious Chinese joke could not entirely escape even glum Japanese Ambassador Shigeru Kawagoe...
...States having relations with China. These were told that the immediate withdrawal of all their nationals from the provinces of Suiyuan, Ningsia and Chinghai is "necessitated by bandit suppression operations." This was another owlish Chinese joke, designating as mere "bandits" the Manchukuoan and Mongol soldier puppets of Japan...
...there arrived in Manhattan last week to collect funds attractive Miss Loh Tsei, who is known by the cash-compelling sobriquet "The Joan of Arc of China." In December of last year, Chinese students outside Peiping were trying to unite with Chinese students inside Peiping for a demonstration against Japan. In those days the policy of Premier Chiang was not yet strong and his police had locked the City's gates to keep the two groups of Chinese students apart. In this emergency, Miss Loh wriggled her small body under one of the gates and into Peiping, intending...
...hospital, the All China Students Union elected her to one of the five seats on its directorate, hailed her as "The Joan of Arc of China" and sent her to the recent World Youth Congress in Geneva. There, warned by typical Geneva pussyfooters that she must not attack Japan, she delivered a flaming speech in denunciation of a country which she left unnamed...