World history is revolving around the Danzig and Tianjin questions. … I feel that the gears of world history are accelerating still further.

6 August 1939, Inter-Parliamentary Union Delegation Travel Diary to the U.S. and Europe — 30 June to 2 October 1939 — Transcription and Commentary, trans. from Japanese. In Dōshisha Hōgaku (Doshisha Law Review), Vol. 73 No. 1 (2021)