Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This time the problem is different. And the difference is the fault of an ambitious little country where life is not abundant, Japan. Last week a European squeeze was on The Netherlands, and Japan was on the alert. At the most opportune and opportunistic moment, out came a spectacular jingoistic blast: Japan would like some of that Dutch abundance, and would brook no interference to her ambition to dominate the South Seas...
...this time the U. S. had become infected with inconsistency. First reports said that during their talk Ambassador Grew had threatened economic pressure if Japan did not change her policy in China. Second (official) reports said he had not made any threat...
...made perfectly clear was that there is some talk in the U. S. that when the abrogated Trade Treaty of 1911 lapses in January, it might be followed not by a new treaty, but by an embargo. To tell a Japanese that Americans do not like to fight Japan's war for them is not to threaten...
...Lambrino was pensioned off ($12,000 a year) and banished from the country. A few months later she gave birth to a boy, named him Mircea. Mother & son went to Paris, and later she got another big settlement. Carol was soon sent on a trip to Egypt, India and Japan, only to find on his return that his family had picked out for him a beautiful and royal bride-to-be -Helen, sister of George II, the present King of Greece. They were married in 1921, and seven months later Princess Helen gave birth to Mihai, who fortnight ago celebrated...
...Despatch's men boarded her, Emmy's men opened her seacocks, scuttled the prize. Despatch passed through the Canal into the Pacific, perhaps to chase the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, which was believed to have rounded the Horn. Two German freighters which had taken refuge in Nagasaki, Japan since war's outbreak last week hastily changed their cargoes of soybeans for fuel...