Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admiral Yarnell, tall, thin lowan, has had a free hand from Washington in dealing with emergencies. The Admiral has thus won several quarrels with the Japanese, and has probably saved U. S. citizens in China some of the humiliation and indignities that Britons have undergone. In answering so effectively Japan's ultimatum last week, the U. S. Admiral also notified Japanese authorities at Shanghai and the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Fleet in China, Vice-Admiral Koshiro Oikawa, that U. S. ships would go wherever U. S. lives or property were endangered...
...another time a delegate to the Geneva Disarmament Conference of 1926. The prattle of diplomats, the explanations of foreign offices, the fine points of parliamentarians are not, however, for him. Last week he bluntly reiterated the Army's price for raising the blockade: Britain's recognition of Japan's Asia-for-the-Asiatics policy...
...author of England Expects Every American To Do His Duty), is to be published in the U. S.* Covering the hectic years of 1932-39, most of the car toons have kept their timeliness surprisingly well. His interpretation of the "Open Door," drawn in 1934, anticipated by five years Japan's present at tempt to drive foreign interests out of China, an eventuality which the British Government at that time thought highly improbable. The drawing of the gorged wolves appeared on Dec. 2, 1938, shortly after Polish troops occupied Teschen, completing the post-Munich occupation of Czecho-Slovak territory...
...rich in 1931 when Dr. Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose of Philadelphia, geologist and mining engineer, left it nearly $5,000,000. It distributes income from this hoard as grants in aid of U. S. research. President of A. P. S. is Roland Sletor Morris, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Japan. Mr. Morris is a busy man. He has a law practice, teaches international law at University of Pennsylvania, is interested in sociology, Pennsylvania politics, collecting U. S. debts from Russia. Three years ago he asked Conklin to take over supervision of A. P. S.'s multitudinous affairs. Result: Edward...
...British subjects in Tientsin or bayonetting Chinese irregulars in Shansi, the Japanese infantryman is backed up by an Air Force that has "Made in the U. S. A." on many an airplane, engine, propeller, parachute. This week the Department of Commerce published its latest figures on aeronautical exports to Japan: $1,665,389 for the first five months of 1939. Total to other countries (Britain the chief customer...