Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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China into Council- Ever since the permanent seat on the League Council created for Japan was vacated when that country withdrew from the League (TIME, March 6, 1933), China has been loudly expostulating that no Asiatic country had a place on the Council and that, at the least, China ought to be given one of the rotative, nonpermanent seats which are good for three years. Last week the Assembly elected Latvia and China each to a nonpermanent seat on the Council...
This was no mean triumph for the years of patient diplomacy practiced by China's greatest diplomat, Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo. Since Japan and China are again at dangerous loggerheads, the winning of a Council seat at Geneva now gives China a front-row vantage post from which to shriek to the World for help should Japan again strike...
...British India have the vote.* The entire country is so politically preadolescent that to be moving in India toward heeding the voice of the people or letting them decide anything at all is to move, for the Orient, fast. The Chinese people have no effective suffrage and in Japan masterful forces of Dictatorship in the name of the Emperor have made Japanese elections a mockery today. The new written Constitution of India is hundreds of years behind the unwritten Constitution of the United Kingdom which features at the same time Democracy and Monarchy; but the Indian people under the sort...
Born in Hungary 52 years ago, Erne Hunt Diederich was the son of a rich and swank Hungarian horse breeder. His mother was the daughter of famed Bostonian Artist William Morris Hunt. A distant cousin of Diederich is onetime U. S. Ambassador to Japan William Cameron Forbes. Convinced at that time that he was the last of the Hunts, Erno Diederich began to be called Hunt Diederich when he was 10 years...
Hindmarsh, who is an authority on affairs in Japan and in the East generally, will devote his time to additional research in those fields...