War Talk and John Dewey: Tensions concerning China

  • Jon Thares Davidann

Abstract

This War Prediction, from Charles Edward Russell, an American journalist and socialist, was made not in 1941 but in 1921, twenty years before the attack on Pearl Harbor.1

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Chinese Student Open Door Open Door Policy Interwar Period Pearl Harbor 
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