Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Czechoslovakia, $1,250 from Italy (some of his advertising had been placed through a firm in which Presidential Son Elliott had been a partner). Rev. Dr. Alexander Cairns of Bloomfield, N. J. deposed that in seven months he had delivered 138 lectures at $25 apiece on behalf of Japan, which also employed Washington Lawyer Frederick Moore at $500 a month. Piquant were the names of Spain's U. S. interpreters: for the Rightists. William S. Culbertson, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Chile and brother of Paul Culbertson, assistant chief of the State Department's Division of European...
...which the late Joseph Chamberlain would have considered stupendous, even with aircraft altering the picture, was something Neville Chamberlain bore well in mind at Munich. The vital lifelines of the British Empire, spanning the globe (see map), are still defended, and will be for years, primarily by sea power. Japan, had Britain & France gone to war with Germany fortnight ago, would have been able to seize Hong Kong at the end of the British lifeline, which vibrated slightly last week with a fizzled putsch in Siam. Perhaps Singapore also would have fallen if the war had lasted even...
...Japan's Ambassador to the U. S. since 1934 has been 51-year-old Hiroshi Saito, a jovial, waspy little man who has ingratiating ways with Washington correspondents, plays poker with White House Secretary Marvin Mclntyre and prides himself on his U. S. slang. Diplomat Saito approves the establishment of a Japanese-controlled China, but is generally believed to dislike the smashing tactics the army is using to achieve it. His unpalatable task since the China war started has been to square aggressive Japan with a U. S. sympathetic to China. Dashing about making polite apologies and good-will...
While with Fortune, he wrote the research articles dealing mainly with labor, the Capitol, social affairs, and one on Japan. He ha also been a contributor to The Nation. Next week the Columbia Broadcasting System will carry one of his plays over a national network, when they dramatic "Air Raid...
With other powers showing a strong disposition to climb aboard this bandwagon before the League Assembly adjourned, typical Geneva statesmen foresaw two important developments: 1) the League will not by "automatic" or other means impose the sanctions against Japan which China demanded fortnight ago; 2) Germany may possibly return, in case war is averted now, to ultimate League membership...