Word: sinos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baron was one of the first Japanese of high position to be labeled "Fascist." But during the last several years his views mellowed to the archconservatism of an elder statesman. He believes in friendship with the U.S. and Britain, favors a quick settlement of the four-year-old Sino-Japanese War, opposes a single totalitarian party, has balked against Axis alliances. So considerable is his influence on Prince Konoye that he has become known as the "Strong Man of the Cabinet...
Last week, in the midst of these crises, Financier Kung reviewed three and a half years of the Sino-Japanese war and prophesied that 1941 would be "China's victory year." But Financier Kung knew and admitted that other decisive turns in the World War - soem of which the U.S. might call-were approaching, and on their outcome depended the future of China...
Japanese Premier Prime Fumimare Konoye, 49, who was ahealthier man of 45 when the Sino-Japanese war began, had most reason of all to ponder the course of the U. S. Last week he stood before the Japanese Diet and sadly admitted: "This is the fifth year since the outbreak of the China conflict and yet there is no sign of a solution of the incident ... it is entirely my own responsibility. Billions of yen have been spent and 100,000 officers and men sacrificed on the continent . . . for which I must apologize to the Emperor and the people...
...foresaw the greatest of Japan's many huge budgets, calling for more than ten billion yen-five billions for war purposes alone-and requiring more than six billions of new borrowing. Such a budget would be greater than Japan's entire funded debt in 1937 when the Sino-Japanese war started...
...Eastern correspondent who has lived under the Japanese terror, I know and appreciate the danger and the horror of living with the assassin's gun at one's back every minute of the day and night. Those correspondents who remained on the front lines of the Sino-Japanese War have long deserved recognition for their services to the American people...