Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being beaten against Italy by British Captain Anthony Eden next door, the Mandates Commission, in a panic lest League prestige be weakened if Dr. Ito's postulates received publicity, hushed everything up last week by agreeing not to discuss them. Also hushed was evidence reaching the Commission that Japan is fortifying her mandated islands in violation of explicit mandate statutes...
Electric in the air was a feeling that at this year's Congress of the Government Party or Kuomintang, it might be possible to face the realities of China and Japan squarely, or at least as squarely as Oriental minds can face anything. The reality is that a policy of Asiatic cooperation, even with vast China flying for some years as the kite on Japan's string, might get the Orient somewhere a great deal faster than it has ever got before...
...future. He agreed that I shall send my 'peace preservation' troops into the demilitarized zone, which they formerly could not enter, to drive the rebel farmers out of the towns they are holding and install new Chinese magistrates who will work for friendship between China and Japan...
Since the "magistrates" of rural China are its rulers, General Shang, as the representative of Nanking, had agreed, in effect, to put a fat part in North China under men who are as much the puppets of Japan as is the so-called Emperor of so-called Manchukuo. Within 48 hours "The Deal" was followed by the shooting of Premier Wang...
...Bolshevik? It might be best, some Nanking statesmen were saying at week's end, for China to team up not with Imperial Japan but with Bolshevik Russia. After all, so many Russians, including Stalin, are Asiatics and Bolsheviks have plenty of zip. Guardedly the Nanking Government spokesman said: "China has not yet been forced to decide between Japan and Russia, but some time in the future, perhaps, China must make this momentous decision...