Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Five-Power Washington Treaty (which ended naval building races for 15 years with its 5-5-3 ratio) and the Nine-Power Washington Treaty (which operated for a decade to keep the "Open Door" for of a China decade ajar to and restrain the the aggressive proclivities of Japan). Last week, with these treaties about to expire, the London Naval Conference had whipped another into shape to be signed this week at St. James's Palace. Appropriate speeches were to be made by President Roosevelt's grey and graceful little Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis...
These diplomats' months of work have been to save as much as possible of the flag of naval Peace. It was blown to tatters in their hands by the shot Japan discharged in withdrawing from the conference because her "honor" would not permit her to abide by the 5-5-3 ratio any longer (TIME, Jan. 27). The Naval Conference was seen this week to have saved for signing a scrap of a treaty...
...London Naval Treaty does not fix any naval ratio among the Great Powers, does not limit the total tonnage or number of effectives of any navy, has no concern with the peace of Eastern Asia and provides no wedge for the Open Door of China which Japan is now fast closing. Those four safeguards to the Peace of the World have definitely been allowed to lapse...
...obeyed the commands of their officers." Two of these officers committed harakiri, but the rest were alive and well last week. Every Japanese knew that the Radical-Militarists were still assassination-minded in case the new Cabinet of hard, spry little onetime Foreign Minister Koki Hirota does not give Japan the drastic social and economic overhaul which they demand...
Mostly of peasant blood, the Radical-Militarists want Japan's great capitalists and its moderately prosperous middle-class squeezed for the benefit of its farmers and fishermen, who since the Machine Age have been grinding out their lives in increasingly abject toil. Thus every Japanese businessman scanned with excruciating qualms every phrase of the Hirota Cabinet's first declaration of policy when it belatedly appeared last week. Its language was high-flown. "With a sense of awe and deep responsibility," preambled the Premier, "I have obeyed the Imperial command to organize a Cabinet after the recent extraordinary affair...