Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japan did not accept a trade war with Britain passively. It meant more to her than just a chance to increase textile exports. Japan's foreign trade is vital to the nation's existence. The development of new markets is the cause of her imperialism, and she cannot finance that imperialism unless other nations buy her goods. Working for starvation wages is a patriotic duty in Japan...
...believe Adam Smith and the Manchester School [of economics]. The fact that Britain has adopted a quota system, which is usually a device of countries unable to face competition, has made a certain impression on the Japanese who had been accustomed to regard Britain as a great trading nation...
...Nation, one L. C. Solen advertised as follows: "Expectant, unmarried mother, in need of temporary, quiet nice lome, nearby country. Able to pay minimum amount and assist with minor housework...
...went. Germany, throughout the war, had urgent need of nickel, aluminum, and chemicals like glycerin for explosives. France, because the rich Briey basin and other sources were out of her control, had to scratch hard for iron and steel. Continuously, therefore, what one nation lacked, the armament manufacturers of an enemy nation did their urgent best to provide. Month after month. German heavy industries exported an average of 150,000 tons of scrap iron, steel, or barbed wire to Switzerland, where, having been smelted to a more convenient form, it was then transshipped to France. France, in her turn, shipped...
...question of the international debts is becoming greatly confused," stated Senator William E. Borah, to the United Press. "This confusion is brought about through the affirmative action of the debtor nations and the negative action of the creditor nation the United States...