Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trade war he had declared against Japan. In Geneva a League of Nations strategy board could concentrate on a proper reply to the Japanese charge of League interference in China, in Nanking the Foreign Office could give its undivided attention to the new Japanese doctrine of a moral protectorate over China. But in Tokyo Foreign Minister Hirota had to keep all three issues in the air at once with one hand conduct the routine business of the Foreign Office with the other and wave the Japanese flag with his teeth...
...also an able administrator. In a short time he had coordinated reconstruction work in seven provinces, persuaded the Nationalist Government to spend $15,000,000mex.-six times as much as in 1933-for reconstruction. Then he returned to Geneva with a strongly worded report demanding more money and moral support for China if that country is not to collapse before Japan...
...that Dr. Rajchman will not return to China. Nanking. In all this prattling over China few paid any attention to the real interests of that vast sprawling helpless country. Nanking, impotent against Japan's armies, had one obvious weapon to wield against Japan's declaration of a moral protectorate. She could appeal to the signatories of the Nine Power Treaty (1922) guaranteeing Chinese sovereignty independence. Months ago when the Japanese doctrine was first proclaimed that was just what Nanking prepared to do. Prudent investigation in Geneva. London, Paris, Washington told her that the smaller powers were leaving...
Unemployment insurance, old age pensions, and the like, while necessary parts of the present system do not offer a final solution for in the last analysis they are regarded as charity and destroy the fellowship of moral equality that should exist between all members of the population. Now that no frontier exists some equivalent of a right to stake out a claim in virgin territory must be offered and this equivalent is work on public projects...
...There many a one had her first chance to see a pleasant-faced Dutchwoman who is the distaff equivalent of the Y. M. C. A.'s Dr. John R. Mott- president of the World Council which supervises the shelter, polite recreation and moral uplift of 1,000,000 women in 50 nations. Jonkvrouwe Cornelia M. van Asch van Wyck, 44, is a member of an ancient Utrecht family which has produced magistrates, deputies, mayors, a provincial president and a founder of the University of Utrecht. She has worked among girls for 25 years. Unsalaried, she presides over committee meetings...