Word: westernization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arriving in Hsinking, capital of Manchukuo, Japanese Foreign Office Spokesman Tatsuo Kawai outlined for correspondents Japan's program for dealing with Western powers in China: 1) elimination of all foreign Concessions; 2) reorganization of international settlements; 3) blotting out of all anti-Japanese activities in foreign areas. Elaborated Spokesman Kawai: "The days of foreign settlements in China are numbered...
When Genghis Khan, conqueror of an empire that stretched from Korea to East Prussia, died in 1227, all witnesses of the funeral procession that bore his body home to his native valleys were killed, lest the people learn of his death. As a result, Western archeologists hunted for them but have never known for sure where the Khan's bones rest. One story is that he was buried under a great tree and that picked warriors stood guard until a forest grew to hide the spot. Nevertheless, last week an Associated Press dispatch told with unhistorical assurance...
...issue of TIME, you have an item entitled "Three Hutchinses." What about the fourth, William Grosvenor Hutchins, instructor of English at Western Reserve Academy, Hudson, Ohio...
...months rumors of a Japanese All Quiet on the Western Front have trickled into the U. S. The book's author, so rumor ran, was a Japanese corporal serving in China, but the book was antiwar, its sales large* (500,000 copies in Japan). Last week U. S. readers could see for themselves "Corporal Ashihei Hino's" gun-sight ac count of the Japanese invasion of China...
...page saga devout patriotism to make samurai over in their urns. Anti-war in general, is certainly not anti-Japanese-war-in-China. Announcement that 500,000 have been sold is a backhanded way saying that Japanese are behind army. Sole resemblance to All Quiet the Western Front is that both books are about fighting...