Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fought at Malta during the week. Simulating Italian bombers, British planes droned over Malta for three hours. On land antiaircraft batteries belched sheets of flame. British first-aid squads dashed about the streets pretending to succor the imaginary wounded, this bit of realism being frankly copied from Germany and Japan...
Neutral observers could only conclude that the Japanese Government, needing a pretext for further armed encroachment upon China, had subsidized and provided ammunition for General Pai. The ruse continued to work to perfection. General Pai's blasts against Japan touched off all over South China precisely the sort of Chinese popular unrest and baiting of local Japanese needed by spunky little Japanese Premier Koki Hirota as an excuse to intervene. By his orders a Japanese cruiser and six destroyers soon slithered into Amoy "to protect Japanese lives and property." Added a Japanese destroyer officer, "We are ready to proceed...
...Should Japan obtain the whip hand in Canton and South China which she already holds in Peiping and North China, the so-called "National Government of the Republic of China" at Nanking would be squeezed between two red-hot tongs of Japanese Might. Last week's developments reduced to absurdity an edifying statement read to the House of Commons by Britain's polite Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, in which Japan was censured for abetting Japanese smugglers to evade the Chinese customs, at the expense of law-abiding British traders...
...fled across one side of the earth as the moon passed in front of the sun. Like a crow's shadow, at dawn the eclipse trailed over Athens, leaped the Golden Horn, spanned the Black Sea, darkened Omsk, Tomsk, Kansk, crossed the Khingan Mountains into Northern Manchukuo, the Japan Sea into the Island of Hokkaido, then passed 2,800 mi. out into the Pacific where it spent itself at sundown...
...spot. Exceptional was this week's performance, not for duration of time or dimensions of shadow path, but because its course ran almost wholly across land. Thus a wide choice of observation sites was available. Eleven parties from the U. S., England, France, Italy, Poland and Japan set up stations somewhere along the totality strip. The U. S. S. R. outfitted 25 expeditions. One group of Russians had balloons with automatic instruments on top, which, in case of bad weather, they planned to send above the clouds...