Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...century in French political tight-rope walking was given in 1935 but as the year entered its last hours the fate of Premier Pierre Laval, 1931'S Man of the Year, continued to tiptoe (see p. 18). In Asia practical control of North China was obtained by Japan in 1935 so adroitly and inconspicuously that it was a major Japanese triumph to have avoided producing a Man of the Year. China's perpetually harassed Man of the Year, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, entered his most excruciating morass of dilemmas...
...Chinese Government, reorganized with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek as Premier, were in daily diplomatic, negotiation with the Japanese Government, trying to save what they could. It appeared certain that North China would not obey Nanking's order to ship all silver stocks to the Capital, because 1) Japan would not permit her prospective new puppet state to be drained of silver, and 2) North Chinese owners of silver prefer to keep it in North China, no matter who governs the area...
...First Baptist Church of Oakland, Calif, was all ready one night last week to extend a rousing welcome to a visitor from Japan, the No. i Christian of that land. Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa. The church folk of Los Angeles would gather the following night to greet the soft-faced, myopic 47-year-old man of God whose arrival has been heralded in church papers for months. Few days after Christmas the Young People's Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Memphis, had on its program the name of the great Dr. Kagawa, who went to Princeton Theological...
...attention of President Roosevelt. Promptly, on the third day of the good doctor's stay at Angel Island, the President at a Cabinet meeting told Secretaries Hull, Morgenthau and Perkins to get busy. In two hours the State, Treasury and Labor Departments evolved a legal arrangement whereby Japan's No. 1 Christian would get a seven-month visitor's permit on condition that he be constantly accompanied by a doctor or nurse...
...meet any geisha girls?" chortled Vice President John Nance Garner as he stepped ashore in Seattle. "I'll have to consult my diary." On the last lap of their two-month junket to Japan, China and the Philippines (at the expense of the Philippine Commonwealth), the Vice President, 17 Senators and 29 Representatives with their wives and children entrained for Washington. At Spokane Junketeer Garner, snugly installed in an upper berth, refused to come down for cameramen, bored deeper into his pillow. One canny photographer focused his camera, stood back, ventured : "I still maintain the only way to catch...