Word: sino
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exclusive stories like the foregoing pop up here and there in the Sino-Japanese news to the U. S.; but the war is not a war of great "scoops." Rather the scene is that of the U. S. Press machine functioning smoothly, making remarkably tasty hash of what it can see., but not bothering to see deep...
What is of interest to the rest of the world, however, is the fact that here is an opportunity for the Japanese people to show their attitude on the whole Sino. Japanese question. If they vote for the present government, then they will be endorsing all its recent aggressive policies. For it was Inukai who was responsible for the occupation of Manchuria; he lead the military attack on the boycott at Shanghal; and voted about fourteen million dollars additional for military expenditures in China...
...President began by sending the Senate at its request the entire diplomatic correspondence that had passed between Washington and Tokyo and Nanking since the original development of Sino-Japanese hostilities in Manchuria. Secretary Stimson's exchange of views with the British Government, through Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay, terminated in an agreement whereby the U. S. and Great Britain decided to work shoulder-to-shoulder in protecting their citizens in Shanghai. Secretary Stimson also asked Japan, through Ambassador William Cameron Forbes, to make clear its stand in using the International Settlement as a base for military operations against the native...
...have tried to make out what stand the CRIMSON has taken on the Sino-Japanese situation, without, I must confess, any great degree of success. First you pooh-poohed the whole affair as nothing more than a far-Eastern circus and condescendingly advised everybody not to take what the newspapers say too seriously. This attitude I believe to be indefensible; the principles involved in the present situation are of enormous importance to the future of international relations, and no one with any intelligence can afford to sit smugly back and send forth occasional Bronx cheers...
...value of discussion affairs of the sort brought before the public eye by the Sino-Japanese conflict is not to be minimized. But sometimes local public opinion, galvanized by newspaper reports which can be erroneous, is led into impolitic expressions...