Word: panay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after Japanese planes sank the U. S. gunboat Panay in the Yangtze River, Franklin Roosevelt summoned Secretary of State Cordell Hull to the White House, asked in no uncertain terms to have Japan's sacred Son of Heaven informed of the feelings of the President of the U. S. C. Major social event of the Presidential week was the Gridiron Club Banquet, at which the President's remarks are, by strict rule, completely off the record. Sharpest of the six skits written by Washington newspapermen concerned Associate Justice Hugo LaFayette Black of the Supreme Court who, unlike Chief...
...shocked and concerned at Japan's behavior. For Japanese-American relations had not been so clarified as mealy-mouthed Admiral Honda believed, and they had reached a more dangerous pass than he might have cared to believe last week when Japanese bombers sank the U. S. river gunboat, Panay...
With every front page in the country screaming the details, it is going to be difficult to forget the "Panay," but in the light of what seems to be our foreign policy, it will be much more difficult to make an issue...
...remain fervently isolated from the outside world. It thought, and still thinks, that no one spot of foreign soil is of sufficient importance to this country to merit our protection on purely economic grounds. It thought, and still thinks, that citizens venturing into a war zone once of the "Panay" and the Standard Oil vessels on the Yangtse was an exception to acknowledged policy, and while the myopic shortcomings of Japanese aviators are to be regretted, nothing can be done...
...some extent modified isolationist feeling, and public opinion is clamoring more and more for the sanctity of treaties, respect for frontiers and other amenities of international life. But while this attitude is being welded into a strong, inflexible policy, the nation would do well to forget the "Panay." We remembered the "Maine," and we remembered the "Lusitania." Our memory cost us dear...