Word: britain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noncompliance" by belligerent Great Britain with the terms of an 1859 treaty by which Guatemala granted Britain Honduras, Guatemala has for some time claimed the territory. By the treaty Great Britain agreed to build a road from Guatemala City to the Atlantic, but has never done so. This, claims Guatemala, voids the treaty. Last week busy Great Britain indicated it was "disposed" to negotiate...
Since both Japan and conquered areas of China were neutral with regard to Europe's war, said the lawyers, they had a perfect right to ask belligerents (Great Britain and France) to withdraw all military and naval posts...
...Washington Japan's Christian Ambassador Kensuke Horinouchi admitted to newsmen that his country had given Britain and France "friendly advice" to go home. This was because they were at war. Then the Ambassador casually played his ace. The U. S. is not at war. The U. S. and Japan should be friendly. It was too bad, he said, that since denunciation of the U. S.-Japanese trade treaty of 1911 there would soon be no commercial arrangements between the two countries...
Newspapers, as usual, were solidly in line. One morning the leading newspapers of Tokyo all ran strikingly similar editorials on how the U. S. was becoming the "watchdog of the Far East" on behalf of Britain and France...
...mainland, meanwhile, the Army began operations with the cards stacked in its favor: with far superior equipment, with new determination to jack its sagging morale, with the knowledge that Britain and France were no longer the whalebones in China's financial corset. The Army's greatest blessing was that it no longer had Russia to fear. Soldiers read reports from Domei, the official news agency, telling that in the no man's land of the Manchukuo-Outer Mongolian border, a Japanese lieutenant colonel and a Soviet major general stepped from cars decorated with white flags and shook...