Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emphasis was on opposition to Fascism; now it was on Peace (but not, in the Party organs, "at any price"). By bedding with Hitler, Joseph Stalin was shown to have done him a fatal favor (PACT SPLITS AXIS WAR ALLIANCE, headlined the Daily Worker). That Russia had replaced Japan in the Axis, the Communists perforce denied...
...Meanwhile on the Eastern Front, Northern Sector, Japan won a battle of words which has been dragging on in Tokyo since July 15: the parleys on Tientsin (where 59-year-old Widow Mary Frances Richard, a U. S. citizen, last week had her face slapped for sassing a sentry). Japan did not capture the objective she seemed to want-British acquiescence in Japanese control of North China currency; but she did achieve what she really wanted-a breakdown of the parleys. The British Government made its first strong stand in the whole engagement by firmly refusing to discuss the currency...
...controlled Chinese policemen and wounded six others with a submachine gun, when they attacked him from the rear and, according to his claim, without provocation. Said the Japanese Embassy, after an emergency meeting of Army and Navy officers: "We take a grave view of this affair." Foreigners wondered if Japan would consider it provocation enough once and for all to settle the Settlement...
...Japan, Cuba and Mexico have also occasionally banned issues of TIME. *As for Edda Ciano's private life, it is a favorite topic of conversation among thousands of European socialites, sophisticates and Government officials...
...various nations. These were most recently brought up to date by the Cairo conference last year. Assigned to the U. S. are initial letters W, K and N (for naval communications). Germany has the letter D (for Deutschland), France F, Great Britain G, Italy I, Russia R and U, Japan J, China the letters XGA through XUZ. Mexico has XAA through XFZ. Hungary has HAA through HAZ, including a station...