Word: ironically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finns, politically uninfluential, scattered from New York City to Grays Harbor, Wash., farmers in Michigan, loggers and fishermen in Washington, iron miners in Minnesota, the week's news was different...
...Extreme isolationist view is that U. S. interests in China (with only two-thirds the value of the U. S. domestic barber business) and U. S. resources in the Philippines (gold, iron, chromite, manganese, tobacco, hemp, timber, sugar) are not worth holding at the risk of conflict; that the U. S. should withdraw to the Panama-Hawaii-Alaska front, strengthen defenses there...
...Cardinal requisite of any foreign service diplomat is that he shall be able to write clearly, vividly, movingly. Of the earthquake Nelson Johnson reported: "I found Yokohama in ruins. I left it busy removing the last vestiges of the confused masses of brick, a city of small galvanized iron shops and houses looking for all the world like a crude mining town in Alaska or a boom town of the prairies, and no longer the oriental city of Kipling and the whaler...
...shall go back presently. But whatever Yokohama becomes I shall always see in it and behind it the ruined city, the piles of confused brick and heat-twisted iron, the china doll's head lying beside the whitened incinerated bones of the child, here where two were killed, there where two hundred were roasted alive, and it will always be a city of ghosts...
...seemed to be: No one. Sweden and Norway, though next in line if the Russian march was really a march to the North Sea, evinced great sympathy, mobilized men on their eastern borders, but were accounted unlikely to fight. Answer to the first question seemed to reside in the iron-hard souls and bodies of the Finns. Their Commander in Chief, Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, struck their battle note as follows...