Word: prob
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diplomacy is quite as big a prob-lem as neutrality to churchmen. Secretaries Diffendorfer and Shaw were cautious indeed about condemning Japanese aggression in China. In the sight of God, Japanese souls are quite as good as Chinese souls, and the autonomous Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church has its own Japanese bishop and 20,000 faithful. Said the secretaries: "It must be remembered that the open sympathy of America for China and the statements and resolutions from this country arouse antagonism in the minds of many Japanese, and, as a matter of course, the position of American missionaries is made more...
Long ago Chiang pondered that prob-lem and selected the province of Szechwan. backed right against the Tibetan highlands and 125 miles from British Burma. Szechwan, biggest province in China proper, has a population (76,000,000) bigger than the white population of the British Empire. It is more or less isolated from Eastern China by mountain ranges and the gorges of the Yangtze River. In its centre forehanded General Chiang has quietly been setting up the biggest military and aviation base in China, 850 miles from his capital of Nanking. Szechwan's one liability is that...
...with governments. He negotiates loans for them and in return gets rich concessions. Canny trader of the North, he is an ideal ally for the French-&-Danish blooded Behns in flinging their communication net over the world. And just as henceforth Kreuger & Toll's great banking resources will prob ably be available for the International system, Herr Kreuger will come closer to alliance with J. P. Morgan & Co. and Na tional City, bankers for International. In addition to acquiring the talent of Herr Kreuger, International receives properties of tremendous value. The I. T. & T. system will now consist...