Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BUDAPEST--Hungary today smashed its own Nazis in a nationwide raid and a few hours later formally joined Germany, Italy and Japan in the Anti-Comintern Pact...
Hocking Attacks Japan...
...main butt of Hocking's attack was Japan. He wondered whether we should "continue to supply her with scientific equipment to ruin her more civilized neighbor...
...three observers give almost identical reasons for predicting a Chinese victory: the unprecedented national unity of the Chinese since the "remarriage" of the Kuomintang and the Communists, their unexpected bravery when properly led in battle, the success of the Communist-inspired, guerrilla tactics. They particularly make the point that Japan cannot hold more than the cities and lines of communication. She has occupied China, declares Mowrer, "about as effectively as a few swimmers can be said to 'occupy' a swimming pool...
China, they add, will win IF: 1) the Central Government arms the whole peasantry, whose Communist leanings it mistrusts; 2) the Kuomintang-Communist pact holds; 3) Russia continues to send substantial aid to the Chinese; 4) the U. S. puts an embargo on iron, oil and planes to Japan; 5) England and France do not make a deal to dismember China, as a means of blocking both Japanese imperialism and a possible victory for the Chinese Communists; 6) China does not become another Czecho-Slovakia or Loyalist Spain...