Word: tokio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the amazing brazenness which has made her famous, Japan, represented by M. Hirota, has demanded that the Soviet Union withdraw her troops from Southern Siberia, since their presence is taken by Tokio as an "unfriendly gesture." Nothing, of course, is further from the Kremlin's mind than to leave the Vladivostok salient wholly unprotected, as Molotov said in so many words, discarding diplomatic disguise. It is perfectly true that the Soviet garrisons and the lower territory itself will be lost instantly when war begins: Manchukuo is so placed that the Japanese will have no trouble whatever in splitting...
...days ago General Araki, the fulminating spokesman of Tokio, invited all interested powers to gather and discuss the Asiatic problem with Japan, a proposal which was welcomed by the "interested" countries as an opportunity to return the snubs which the Rising Sun Empire has handed out these last few years. A Japanese offer of international arbitration over Manchukuo is a gesture lost upon these major nations whose own history contains so many examples of the well-known imperialistic principle, "Shoot first and be asked questions afterwards...
...plum held out by the rotund M. Litvinov), a large part of it might very well be handled from Seattle and ports along that coast to Vladivostok, the outpost city of the Union in lower Siberia. This would undoubtedly be very satisfactory but for one important item: Tokio has its gourmandish eyes strongly focused on Vladivostok and the Maritime Provinces, of which it is the keypoint. Back in 1919, shortly after the war, Japan, who had joined the Allies in intervening against the Red government from Archangel, landed about three times its quota of troops and was on the point...
...restrained protestations, Russia, in the last few days has once again attracted world-attention to the aggrandizement activities of the cocky Nipponese in the Orient. The Muscovites claim that Japan is attempting to scuttle away with their Chinese Eastern Railway, and informally Tokio rather complacently admits complicity with such schemes. As this news climbs to more important levels on the front pages of the dailies, militarists are gleefully clapping their hands at the prospects of a first-class imbroglio, although the possibilities of the scare reaching war proportions seem very vague indeed...
...first place, allow men to point out the utter falsity of the "facts" on which the whole editorial rests; headlines in the New York Herald-Tribune for Monday morning read "May Day Mob Beats Official At Melbourne; Polish Police Fire on 700; Tokio Seizes 1200 Reds; Spain Arrests Scores; Racial Strife In Africa; 80 Faint in Berlin Arena; Hyde Park Has Riot," while a front page story calls the New York May Day parade "the biggest communist turnout this city has seen." Your editor must evidently have spent the day in the poetry room of Widener, or perhaps talking with...