Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is only one piece of news about China which the remainder of the world would be much interested to hear: that China had at last stiffened her backbone and was going to fight Japan. In the past six months the Japanese Government has shown a marked tendency to modify its truculence, and in the past two months the Chinese Government has begun to show itself astonishingly bolder. Drastic censorship in both Tokyo and Nanking has delayed and blurred this greatest Far East news story. By last week, however, it seemed clear that the present which her bantamweight Premier & Generalissimo...
Humiliations of Chiang: To make clear how bold Premier Chiang & Cabinet had actually become on his 50th birthday last week required a review of the supreme humiliations to which the Nanking Government has even lately submitted. Not to mention Japan for the moment, it was humiliating that Admiral William Harrison Standley, Chief of U. S. Naval Operations, found it necessary to report officially in 1934 "China continues in a state of disruption, with internal strife, including Communist and bandit activities, engaging the wholesale attention of Chinese Government Forces." At this time 30,000 Japanese soldiers in North China had thoroughly...
Chinese plenipotentiaries sent by Generalissimo Chiang to make peace or at least a truce with Japan arrived by special train at Tangku to find neither motor cars nor any other conveyance at the station...
...slant eyes of the Far East, China appallingly "lost face" by this Tangku Truce, which has been stretched by Japan in the ensuing months to legalize any outrage Japanese or Koreans chose to commit in North China. In the spring of 1936, not only were Japanese-smuggled sugar, artificial-silk and cigaret paper selling openly in Peiping for less than the Chinese duty which should have been collected on them, but the Chinese state railways were each day running a "smugglers" freight car" coupled to the morning passenger train which entered North China from the Japanese puppet Empire of Manchukuo...
Between 1926 and 1931 occurred such dramatic events as General Chiang's break with Moscow, where his name is now execrated; resignation by Chiang of all his Chinese offices on two separate occasions; one visit by the General to Japan where years ago he got his original military training at Tokyo Military Academy; his marriage to Christian Miss Soong, and his baptism as a Southern Methodist after the Ningpo Napoleon had said, "I feel the need of a God such as Jesus Christ...