Word: comintern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Main source of disquiet were the "holiday" travels and talks of small, suave, dark Count Stephan Csaky, Foreign Minister and big landowner, who signed Hungary into the Anti-Comintern Pact. When Führer Hitler and Count Ciano met in the mountains of Bavaria last fortnight, Count Csaky was near by, remaining at the foot of the mountain but conferring daily with German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. When Count Ciano flew back to Rome, Count Csaky soon followed. When Count Ciano was too busy to see the U. S., British or French Ambassadors, he still had time to spend...
...event of a showdown. British commercial interests-such as the $50,000,000 Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp.-and the private property of the 16,000-odd British residents of Hong Kong are not deemed to be worth fighting losing battles for. Furthermore, prospect of sudden inclusion of the Comintern in the Anti-Comintern Front (see p. 21) was bound to be as much of a shock to Britain as to Japan. For if a German-Russian-Italian-Japanese bloc is its eventual result, Japan will be able to stop fretting about the Russian menace and concentrate on expansion...
...confusion in Europe made for War in Asia, trouble in Asia did not compound the immediate chances for World War No. 2 in Europe. As Far Eastern member of the anti-Comintern alliance, Japan is most useful to her German and Italian partners when she feels free to challenge Soviet Russia along the Siberian-Manchukuoan border. She is most menacing to Britain and France when she is poised as a free-wheeling threat to Singapore, French Indo-China, The Netherlands Indies. From 1935 to 1937 Japan was useful to the blackmail schemes of the Rome-Berlin dictators. After...
...land of money-loving merchants. Thereupon, in 1907, they agreed to an alliance against Germany. By 1917, after the Bolshevik Revolution, they were enemies again; in 1927, three years after they had exchanged chargés d'affaires, England broke off relations as a result of Comintern anti-British propaganda in China. Two years later, while the British press tiraded against Communism, the British sent an ambassador to Moscow...
Stronger-than-usual British and French protests were lodged at Tokyo's Foreign Office. Embarrassed more than angered were the Germans, associates of Japan in the anti-Comintern Pact, but they also protested. While by week's end the Japanese had given no official answer, her Navy spokesman at Shanghai announced that Japan would search for "military supplies" any ship operating within 200 miles of the Chinese coast. The spokesman added: "It is not a question of rights, but of what the Japanese Naval authorities demand...