Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Kerr Eby prefers to wander amid wild marshes, fish in the surf. He was born in Tokyo of U. S. parents. He lives in Manhattan and Westport, Conn...
...authority on the historicity of finance, he has written History of Crises Under the National Banking System, Banking Reform in the United States, Theory and History of Banking. From 1905 to 1908 he was a professor of economics at the Imperial University of Tokyo...
...hours passed, London, Washington and Tokyo put pressure upon Nanking, until cocky Mr. Wang cracked, retracted. He blandly announced himself in complete accord with the following trick statement, masterfully drafted by the British Foreign Office: "His Majesty's government are willing to agree that Jan. 1, 1930, should be treated as the date from which the process of the gradual abolition of extraterritoriality should be regarded as having commenced in principle...
London's suave lead was followed by Tokyo and Washington, where Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson announced that "in the matter of extraterritoriality the American and Chinese governments are now in complete accord." Thus the British masterminds which coined such weasel terms as "The Irish Free State" (see p. 27) appeared again triumphant. Abolition of extraterritoriality will be delayed for years, but China's face has been saved...