Word: sino
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German garrison, for the Kaiser had bombastically called it "the jewel of my heart." Japan held Tsingtao through the War and after. But its attempt to stay out the 99-year lease was solemnly thwarted by the Great Powers at the Washington Conference (1921-22) and by the Sino-Japanese Treaty of 1922 when Japan solemnly swore to leave Tsingtao alone. Tsingtao remained, nevertheless, a jewel...
Twelve members of the Harvard faculty, momentarily placing behind them name and degree, will have parts in a dramatization of the hearings of the 65th Council of the League of Nations as it met, first in Geneva, and later in Paris, to discuss the Sino-Japanese problem. This repetition of the Council hearings is to be given at Agassiz Hall, Radcliffe, on January 28, at 2 o'clock; the affair is being sponsored by the League of Women's Voters and by the Educational Committee of the League of Nations Association...
...Capital of Manchuria and storm center of Sino-Japanese difficulties...
...cause of the keen interest which everyone has shown in the recent Sino-Japanese crisis is found in the fear of another world war. Predictions have been made since the last great war that the next one would start in the Orient. In the present disturbance people see the possibility of these coming true. In their alarm they lose track of the tremendous result which this contest may have beside which another world war is insignificant...
Dozens of books and articles will be written on the Manchurian controversy before the many threads can be untangled and candidates for the doctor's degree in the twenty-fifth century will doubtless still be uncovering new information. Any opinion on the development of the Sino-Japanese struggle must be a guess. There are, however, one or two aspects of the situation which are worth considering...