Word: rajchman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League. The next problem in Koki Hirota's busy week was what to do about Dr. Ludwik Rajchman. So glaring are the things that the League of Nations ills to do that the world is apt to forget the practical international charity which the League attempts. Year ago it was the League-inspired loan to Austria that did much to ward off Hitlerism and keep Engelbert Dollfuss in the saddle. Since 1930 the League has been doing what it could for impoverished China. Eight months ago it commissioned its Dr. Ludwik Rajchman, Polish expert on China...
Like most League attaches, Dr. Rajchman is an ardent liberal, instinctively opposed to Japanese imperialism. To Japan's chagrin he is also an able administrator. In a short time he had coordinated reconstruction work in seven provinces, persuaded the Nationalist Government to spend $15,000,000mex.-six times as much as in 1933-for reconstruction. Then he returned to Geneva with a strongly worded report demanding more money and moral support for China if that country is not to collapse before Japan...
...essential to protect Japan from her enemies," cried he. "The next naval conference will not concern the Navy alone, but may decide the destiny of the Empire. Japan must take this opportunity to free herself from unfavorable restrictions." In Geneva Japan pulled wires to force the withdrawal of Dr. Rajchman as financial adviser to China. Fearful of a show-down on Japan's new position as "Protector of the East" the League knuckled under. It intimated that Dr. Rajchman will not return to China. Nanking. In all this prattling over China few paid any attention to the real interests...
...trusted hand with the League of Nations, Polish Dr. Rajchman is not only an economic adviser but a physician who has done health work for the League in Poland, Russia, China. In Warsaw last week his cousin, Col. Floyer Rajchman, was the first Jew in Polish history ever to become a Cabinet Minister. He was named Minister of Industry and Commerce. Col. Rajchman, too, has first hand knowledge of Japanese imperialism. He has served as Polish Military attaché in Tokyo...
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