Word: militarist
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...last week. First Wang Ching-wei, President of the Executive Yuan-i. e. Premier of the Nanking Government- resigned. Wang, a Cantonese, was the most belligerent of the anti-Japanese leaders of China. Long an opponent of Marshal Chiang Kaishek, whom he considers a self-centred militarist, he forgot his differences at the time of the Shanghai incident to help Chiang oppose Japan. Marshal Chiang has lost much face by his continued failure to consolidate and pacify central China (his own territory) and his failure to provide more determined resistance to Japan. Wang Ching-wei resigned in disgust having first...
...Militarist Araki (a devoted husband and father) beautifully threatened Japanese withdrawal from the League of Nations "if its commission [now investigating Manchuria] continues to show ignorance of Far Eastern conditions." Demanding that more Japanese troops be sent to Manchuria, General Araki said (as nearly as his flowerings can be translated) : "The problems confronting the Empire's defense arm are of such magnitude and profound importance as to transcend those of our Siberian expeditions in 1918 [when Japanese and other Allied troops penetrated far into Soviet territory]. From certain viewpoints the present situation is even more serious than the Russo-Japanese...
Philanthropic U. S. citizens who contribute to Yenching University at Peiping were relieved when President Dr. John Leighton Stuart cabled last week that his Cninese students are ignoring the militarist demonstrations of other Chinese students and continue to study...
...been able to do so far in the presence of events of exceptional gravity. What a fine peace organization that is!" Army Out of Hand? Meantime, the Japanese armies continued to hold Mukden. The Japanese Cabinet expressed itself as being very much embarrassed. That, apparently, was just what the militarist faction intended it should be. The Mukden affair seemed to boil down to a struggle in Japanese politics, upon the outcome of which hinged the peace of the Orient...
...birthday of the Kaiser Wilhelm II has passed quietly at Doorn and perhaps the royal exile did not wholly miss the gala festivities which the occasion formerly brought to the Fatherland. While many continue to censure him as a sabrerattling militarist, the war has passed, and with it should go the lingering animosities which it provoked...