Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan's denial of U. S. rights in China is a downright violation of "several binding international agreements" (notably the Nine-Power Treaty of 1922) to which Japan, the U. S. and other powers are parties...
...Japan has acted like a sovereign in China, laying down new law on her own authority only. "This Government does not admit . . . that there is need or warrant for any one power to take upon itself to prescribe what shall be the terms and conditions of a 'new order' in areas not under its sovereignty and to constitute itself the repository of authority and the agent of destiny in regard thereto...
Starting next Monday E. Power Biggs, head of the Organ Department at the Longy School of Music, will give a series of six weekly recitals of preBach music on the Germanic Museum's famous baroque organ...
...past, and in spite of recurring "entanglement" with the continent of Europe, American public opinion as a whole has persisted in dreaming the roseate dream of isolation. Justly revolted by the power politics and recurring warfare of the old world, and profoundly desirous of a separate, peaceful life on this continent, they have thought and acted in terms of a fundamental division of the world. But while thus pleasantly immersed in eighteenth and early nineteenth century thinking, their nation grew into a major world power; and, except for a brief flurry of world-consciousness in 1920--denied expression by destructively...
...More territory" is of course merely representative of power on a world scale; the U.S. would still not fight, or even impose an economic embargo, to prevent Italian acquisition of Tunis. Still, the poll means that Americans have finally realized that their nation is a part of the world; that Britain, long the strategically dominating factor in Europe and the first line of defense for America's isolationism, no longer holds that position; that Berlin is closer--several days closer, by steamship--to Rio de Janiero than is New York; and that, as the President yesterday said, "democracies...