Word: wars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the outbreak of war in Europe, the importance of Chungking and Tokyo in the U. S. Ambassadorial scale has increased tremendously-so much that only London and Paris now rank them. There are good reasons. Britain, France, Germany and, to a lesser extent, Russia have all turned Westward. Of important powers, only Japan and the U. S. are just now conspicuously active in the Orient. Masters of the East and West shores of the Pacific, they are natural opponents. One of them is big, rich, complacent, lazy, subject to delayed reflexes; the other small, inordinately ambitious, troubled with intellectual...
Through trying times-civil war, Japan's invasion of Manchuria, the Shanghai warfare of 1932-he was Johnson on the Spot. He watched the Shanghai bombings from the roof of a cotton mill. He liked to call himself the Commuting Minister, and preferred the hinterland ton Westernized coastal cities; only went to Shanghai, he said, when he thought it was time to change his shirt. Almost everywhere he went, his favorite book, Alice in Wonderland, went with...
Britain and France had just reduced their China garrisons. Japan was fulminating against the U. S. in its role of watchdog. The conferees went off to Manila with their boss's judgment (coinciding with their own): if Japan takes the present war as an occasion to move in on French and British interests, the U. S. must do everything short of war to resist. If you live in a firetrap, Nelson Johnson might say, and the apartment of the two people across the hall catches fire, you don't go on reading that romantic novel; you get busy...
...well as many other supply factories throughout the U. S. were also closed. Automobiles which people wanted to buy were not being made. Perhaps 150,000 workers who needed work and wages got neither. Best name for this standstill was what the Irish called their six-year civil war: the Trouble...
...War? Said Chrysler's President Kaufman Thuma Keller, gravely and truly: "The settlement should have been made without the loss of a single day's pay on the part of our employes, or the loss of a single automobile sale on the part of our dealers." Then why this costly shutdown? No strike, no lockout, it was a cessation of work which followed when the contract between Chrysler and its C. I. O.-unionized workers (who commanded absolute majorities-and sole bargaining rights-in eleven of Chrysler's 14 plants) expired Sept. 30. While the two sides...