Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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International News Service correspondents at Shanghai quoted Japanese "circles" as saying that Führer Adolf Hitler had assured Japan that he would serve Britain with an ultimatum-on March 6. The implication was that Japan was preparing for that day, too, probably with a squeeze on Russia...
Foreign Editor William Philip Simms of the Scripps-Howard newspapers told his readers that he had received from Nazi commercial sources information that Germany, Italy and Japan were planning a "showdown." Almost alone of the correspondents, Editor Simms did not mention a specific day, said the crisis would come "within four to six weeks at the latest...
...people believe there will be a general European war this year. Fifty-seven out of 100 believe the U. S. will be in it. FORTUNE polls of 1935 and 1938 showed that between those years the U. S. had developed a sudden and violent dislike for Japan and Germany. The Germans, who were disliked by only 17.3% of the people in 1935, were disliked by 30% in 1938. If the U. S. does go to war at all, then, it will be to scotch the dictators...
...first step in fighting Fascism, Author Mumford recommends non-intercourse with dictatorships-withdrawal of U. S. nationals from Germany, Italy, Japan; liquidation of all investments there; a complete embargo on all trade with those countries, including U. S. tourist trade...
...Chinese lunar calendar each year is designated by the name of an animal. Last week the Chinese celebrated the end of the year of the tiger, the beginning of the year of the hare and the 592nd day of their war with Japan. At Chungking, China's capital in the far west, the New Life Movement marked the day with a traditional fair, suitably modified for a China at war. The most patronized concession: a "beat the Japanese" booth where patriotic Chinese could throw balls at caricatures of such Japanese worthies as Premier Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, his predecessor, Prince...