Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Actually the Chinese Government "nationalized" silver but large quantities of Chinese silver have been smuggled out through Japan. In October Japan, which has negligible silver resources, exported some 21,000,000 oz. Where that silver came from was no mystery. It was smuggled from China...
...Italia brandished in everybody's face the very notion over which most persons of Peace & Goodwill were wringing their hands, namely, that if Italy gets Ethiopia, then Germany will eventually get back the colonies seized from her during the War by the Allies. Benito Mussolini, lumping Japan, Germany and Italy together as "unsatisfied peoples," declared that their needs constitute a problem which the League of Nations is unable to overcome and that "cannot be overcome without Italy...
...Large Norman Hezekiah Davis worried over rumors that behind the scenes the Japanese were getting somewhere in bi- lateral, sub-rosa dickering. Overoptimistic Japanese correspondents in London gave their countrymen hope that a 5-4-4 naval ratio might just possibly be wangled with Britain at 5 and Japan and U. S. trailing as naval equals...
...Daughter of the Samurai, has been a best seller (80,000 copies), gave Author Christopher Morley "a secret notion that it will go on for years & years, making friends for itself and for the brave woman who wrote it, and also-this would please her most-friends for Japan." A Daughter of the Nohfu gave some readers last week the secret notion that no matter how Japanesily you slice it, Little Rollo is still baloney...
...speech closed with a great buttering of Japan as Sir Samuel alluded to the current reduction of North China to the status of a Japanese puppet (see p. 22) in these terms: "I can only regard as unfortunate that events should have taken place which, whatever the actual truth of the matter may be, lend color to the belief that Japanese influence is being exerted to shape Chinese internal political developments and administrative arrangements. Anything which tends to create this belief can only do harm to the prestige of Japan and hamper the development, which we all desire...