Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rear Admiral Osamu Sato, the highest Japanese Naval official in China who is stationed there as naval attaché, divulged to correspondents that the Japanese Government is now pressing the Chinese Government to accept "certain mild general principles" which are actually harsher than Japan's notorious Twenty-One Demands of 1915. Under the first "mild" principle, each Chinese Government army campaigning against Chinese Communists in the interminable civil wars and skirmishes must have with it a Japanese army of equal numbers. Under the second "mild" principle, each official of the Chinese Government, including those of its defense forces...
Finally Leon Blum reaffirmed those principles which Benito Mussolini, with his conquest of Ethiopia, and Japan, with her seizure of Manchukuo, have tried to make seem old-fashioned and even silly. "French Peace supposes for all nations Liberty for self-determination!" cried Orator Blum. "It supposes Equality of right between States, big or little, as between individuals. It supposes Fraternity, that is to say, progressive elimination of war, solidarity against an aggressor and material and moral disarmament...
...announced with no false modesty that, if elected, he would annul "fool laws," put down "racketeers." Before the Cleveland Convention in June, Candidate Macfadden was briefly touted by friends, including Novelist Thomas Dixon. Depth of Mr. Macfadden's political thinking is indicated by his belief that Russia and Japan are planning early attacks...
...which he speaks fluently. This tour de force was enjoyed by the 650 foreign delegates who showed up. These included : Germany's Herr Doktor Julius Dorpmuller, the pudgy head of the Reich rail roads who was President of the second World Power Conference in Berlin six years ago; Japan's beaming Professor Masawo Kamo, who has a flair for oratory in broken English accompanied by dra matic gestures; Britain's horsey-looking Evelyn Hugh Boscawen, Viscount Falmouth, Governor of the Imperial College of Science & Technology and Alderman of London; Sir Harold Hartley, round-faced research director...
...spent a great deal of time sightseeing, golfing, attending parties at embassies and legations. Numbers of them did not even bother to appear while their own papers were being discussed. At some sessions no more than 50 auditors turned up. When the next World Power Conference was allotted to Japan in 1942, cynics added "if another is ever held...