Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shrewd question to which few U. S. citizens have an articulate answer. The General Staff of the Army believe that only Britain could invade North or South America, that Germany with all her air fleet could not do so because of her minuscule navy and shortage of transports, that Japan might seize the Philippines but hardly cross the Pacific...
Last week Great Britain took a stand on Far Eastern policy as forceful as that of the outspoken U. S. In a long, sharp note, which greatly resembled Secretary of State Cordell Hull's New Year's demands on Japan, Britain plainly showed that "appeasement" does not extend to the Orient...
...said Adolf Hitler at Nürnberg in 1936. Last week Führer Hitler, after a year of magnificent triumphs, could still not see any likelihood of getting his hands on the faraway Urals. If there was any grabbing to be done in Siberia, Japan rather than Germany would do it. But the Ukraine was different. There the signs were getting plainer and plainer that Führer Hitler thought the time was approaching when the Ukraine-which includes parts of Poland and Rumania as well as of Soviet Russia-would be ripe for Nazi plucking...
Like the U. S., Britain professed willingness to discuss treaty revisions with Japan, but only in conference with "a fully independent Chinese Government when peace has been restored...
...week's end France also was reported to be preparing what was termed in diplomatic circles a "last warning" to Japan before the Democracies resorted to economic pressure...