Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grudging agreement. The three U. S. delegates, backed up by 17 technical experts, sailed with two aims: 1) to secure a treaty which will entail no further naval construction: 2) to maintain the present naval tonnage ratio of five for the U. S. to Britain's five and Japan's three. Last week they could already hear in their minds' ears the words of their London conferees and in none of them was encouragement...
...tonnage it intends to build so that no one need overbuild out of fear of being caught napping in the naval race. Exit Bigwigs? Though the British plan will be presented to the Conference, the Conference itself will not be the kind for which the British hoped. Japan started things off wrong by picking as delegates two such distinguished figures as Admiral Nagano and ex-Ambassador Nagai and backing them up with a technical staff of 18 experts. Thereupon the U. S., not to be outdone, added Undersecretary of State William Phillips and backed up its delegation with 17 experts...
...yield to Japan's demand for parity? "We never have," replied Mr. Davis. Then with a diplomat's sense of the danger of saying "No," he hastily added: "But I'd rather you did not ask that." Jarless. The third member of the U. S. delegation, being a professional diplomat, said not a word as he boarded the Aquitania. He was the least important member of the delegation, because Mr. Davis was its diplomatic head, Admiral Standley its naval head and he merely a third wheel. His appointment to the delegation is officially to last for only...
...retired importer George Eumorfopoulos sold his own collection and hurried to the East (TIME, Jan. 28). All 21.000 were unpacked and spread out last week in the Royal Academy's sedate Burlington House, along with other Chinese treasures from collections in the U. S., France, Holland, Sweden, Germany, Japan, Turkey, Austria, Egypt, the City of Danzig...
...London, pulled wires to have the Earl of Lytton made chairman of the committee. British museum authorities forgot that he was the same Lord Lytton who sponsored the 1932 League of Nations report condemning the Japanese rape of Manchuria (TIME, Oct. 10, 1932). Though a whole commission went to Japan seeking Chinese treasures for the London show, Japan at first churlishly refused to send a single pot. Well satisfied, the Chinese Government not only lent the Manchu treasures but sent a corps of light-fingered experts to pack and unpack them, to set them up in Burlington House against roll...