Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What determined little Japanese Foreign Minister Koki Hirota smokes is no peace pipe. Although His Excellency is a civilian, Japan's wary militarists have come little by little to the conclusion that here at last is a Japanese diplomat of their own stuff. They freely declared to foreign correspondents in Tokyo last week their "regret" that the death of King George must have largely crowded out of the world press the "historic" address delivered last week to the Japanese Diet by suave but hard Mr. Hirota...
...Excellency laid down for the Imperial Government a three-point program which he declared must "constitute the common cause of all nations in East Asia." This common cause, to which Mr. Hirota pledged the forces of Japan, is to be achieved...
Outside the United States, Canada leads with 47 students, followed by China, 27; England, 21; Hawaii, 19; France, 11; Puerto Rico, 8; Germany, 8; Mexico, 7; Belgium, 4; and Turkey, 4. Other countries, Colombia, Estonia, Iran, Italy, Japan, Norway, Switzerland, Alaska, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canal Zone, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Holland, Hungary, India, Ireland, Lithuania, Newfoundland, Nicaragua, Philippine Islands, Santo Domingo, Scotland, Siam, Spain, Straits Settlements, Sweden, South Africa, Roumania, and Syria...
More than 15,000 duplicate specimens were exchanged during the past year by the Gray Herbarium with active herbaris in the United States and Canada and with institutions in Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Britain, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Esthonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greenland, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Norway, Poland, Roumania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland...
...London next day the U. S., British, French and Italians turned the Conference into a painful and frivolous pretense that naval limitation or disarmament can still be striven for by other Great Powers without Japan. Some talk was heard about new Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's idea of inviting to the Conference both Nazi Germany and Bolshevik Russia. Any such move was soon postponed, but the Conference did agree that its member states are to tell each other early each year what warboats they are going to build that year. The Conference further agreed that Japanese observers left behind...