Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London last week at Clarence House the big Naval Limitation Conference (see cut) was once more deadlocked when Japan's Admiral Nagano "placed a seal of death" upon even the mildest British proposal, namely, that all governments concerned frankly disclose, to each other what ships they intend to build in the next six years. The Conference announced that all its deadlocks are "in a most friendly atmosphere," adjourned over the holidays...
...Earl Winterton: "Partly as a result of the denuding of the Far Eastern seas of our ships to mobilize them in the Mediterranean at great cost, Japan is making her great forward move in North China...
...head the fast-growing Japanese-dominated "Autonomous Government" in North China headed by twerpish-looking Mr. Yin Ju-keng. who deceives nobody by styling himself "General,", a thumping Chinese Big Name was badly needed last week by Japan...
...this were true the crude, raw North Chinese militarists who for years have sat uneasy saddles, galloping for & against Japan but galloping chiefly for themselves, are in for a new regime at Peiping with every trapping of intellectual subtlety and elegance. Today Chinese students have less use for either than they had in the days when Wu Pei-fu was mastering scholarship and the composition of fragile poems on expensive paper with a jade-handled ink brush...
...their unphilosophic and unscholarly impatience 5,000 male & female students demonstrated against Japan last week in Peiping. Afterward over 100 were hospitalized as a result of severe beatings by Chinese police. One youngster offered his slim torso with the cry "Beat me more!" and was obliged...