Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousand Mongol rifles cracked and light Japanese tanks whirled into action. The fighting last week came as a grim climax. Preludes have been more than 100 frontier "incidents" as the Japanese Empire and its vassals steadily encroached toward the Soviet Union. Russia has been afraid to fight back, so Japan has found year after year. Finally and historically, Russia and her vassals began to fight back in earnest last week. This outburst of undeclared war was on the frontier at which a world conflict between East and West can begin any day. Therefore this week the Mongols, their Soviet patrons...
...Russian bombing planes which have been rushed to Urga and were last week spectacularly unlimbered, Japanese-Manchurian Armies would soon have tried to sweep all before them and cut across Outer Mongolia to sever the Trans-Siberian Railway at Lake Baikal. By that slashing of a vital artery, Japan could consider that she had all but assassinated Soviet Eastern Asia and that Vladivostok, cut off from Moscow, must surrender like Port Arthur. To minimize the effect of such a thrust, if it should come, Russia is now frantically rushing to completion a Second Trans-Siberian Railway north of Lake Baikal...
...causes and excuses for aggression. It is as easy to organize for construction as for destruction. That's all I am asking this government of the greatest imperialist power in the world to do. go to Geneva and start the organization of a world economic conference, where Germany, Japan, Italy and all the rest of them can state their case. They know it better than we do. And I hope that in such an enterprise we will be big enough to let the people of India, Egypt and Africa participate in such a conference on equal terms and rights...
...problem of the 'haves' and 'have-nots' has been exaggerated beyond all reason. There would be no problem at all if international trade were stabilized, so that Italy could obtain raw materials at a decent price, and exchange for them her finished goods, so that Germany and Japan could do the same. Mr. Lansbury's motion in the House of Commons last week would have been more realistic had he emphasized the importance, not of a transfer of colonies, but of a stabilization of international trade. It is incompatible with the principle of sovereignity, and self-determination, that peoples, whether...
...matter who produces raw materials, they must be sold in the open, capitalist market-in other words, they must be sold for profit. If they are priced too high, they cannot be sold, and the price will have to drop. What good will it do Italy, Japan and Germany to control colonies and supplies of raw materials? Japan excepted, none of them has sufficient capital to develop colonial industries. Yet each is prepared to squander millions on colonial wars, to obtain goods they can already get, from countries with years of experience in producing them...