Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some interpreters thought "three corners of the world" referred to the three aggressive anti-Comintern allies - Germany, Italy, Japan. At any rate, the number of big bold British speeches last week was evidence that the Chamberlain Government (as well as others) were building a backfire against the possible fire of a big March international crisis...
While the strong right hand of the Teleki Government was cracking down on the Nazis, the dexterous left hand went on signing up with them. In Budapest, Hungary's Foreign Minister Count Stefan Ćsáky signed the anti-Comintern pact with representatives of Italy, Japan and Germany at the very moment the raids were in progress. In this Alice in Wonderland atmosphere, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop wired congratulations to Hungary on its adherence to "the pact ... for fighting the subversive elements which threaten world peace...
...enlisted such distinguished U. S. and European designers as Richard Neutra, Miës van der Rohe. A glowing fulfillment of the fair's "Pacific" theme were seven rooms of treasured art and craftsmanship hand-picked by Harvard's expert, twitchy-browed Orientalist Langdon Warner-from China, Japan, Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, Northwest America, South America, Central America...
...large map of Austria painted on the walls of the Austrian pavilion. The nation is gone but the notion came into its own at San Francisco in Pacific House. A clean, well-lighted place, surrounded by the pavilions and temples of India, Siam, Burma, Indo-China, Japan and the Americas, Pacific House has map-murals as its principal decoration. Its urbane idea-man was Philip Newell Youtz, recent director and modernizer of the Brooklyn Museum. His best idea: four large (15-by-24-feet) mural maps of the Pacific side of the world, by Mexico's Miguel Covarrubias...
Slated to graduate last June from Princeton University, Prince Fumitaka ("Butch") Konoye, son of Japan's former Premier, failed to get enough passing marks to get his degree. Last week news came to the U. S. that Butch Konoye had been appointed Dean of Japanese-sponsored Tungwen College in Shanghai's French Concession...