Word: panay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to Universal Cameraman Norman Alley and the U. S. Navy, when the Panay anchored at the spot where it was sunk, soundings were taken...
Startling but not uninformed were comments on the war made on arriving at Victoria, B. C. last week by Journalist Jim Marshall, a survivor of the sunken U. S. S. Panay. Japanese with whom Mr. Marshall talked en route told him they are afraid their country will "crack" this spring, because it has so over-extended itself in China. "In my personal opinion Generalissimo and Mrs. Chiang are all washed up as a dominant influence in Central China," said Mr. Marshall, adding with reference to Japanese overextension: "If the Japanese take Hankow, I am afraid that both China and Japan...
...want and then cease righting, 2 other foreign nations will step in to check the invasion, 3 the League of Nations will be sufficiently effective in taking action that will force Japan to withdraw, 4 the United States will come to his aid because of the sinking of the Panay, 5 in time Japan will defeat herself through lack of resources...
...Panay incident was a dramatic demonstration of that feature of the Japanese constitution under which the army and navy (1 are pledged to conquer the Orient for Japan, 2 must obey to the letter the orders of the civilian premier, 3 need pay no attention to orders from either the premier or the Emperor, 4 are responsible only to the Emperor and virtually independent of the civilian Government, 5 are responsible only to commanders in the field...
Hiram Johnson is the Senate's Great Isolationist. William Borah is its Great Conversationalist. He had heard of Anthony Eden's pregnant preference to "say nothing" when asked in the House of Commons if Britain and the U. S. were acting in concert after the Ladybird and Panay bombings. He had been even more abashed when the late U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain, Robert W. Bingham, had assured a British audience: "If dictatorships are better prepared to begin war, democracies are better able to finish it. Despots have forced America & Britain to undertake rearmament, & having undertaken...