Word: china
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Diplomatic pressure from the Great Powers mobilized by U. S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, last week virtually imposed peace between Nationalist China and Soviet Russia. Dictator-Governor Chang Hsueh-liang of Manchuria, commander of China's first line of defense, even found leisure to pose and talk pidgin English for U. S. Movietone minions...
Facts seemed to be that severally and collectively the U. S., Britain, France and Japan had all admonished China with especial sternness. Though by no means sympathetic with Moscow, the Great Powers advised Nanking that the Chinese seizure of the Russian-staffed Chinese Eastern Railway (C.E.R.) in Manchuria, three weeks ago, was indefensible. The seizure, of course, provoked the crisis (TIME, July...
...eyes of the Powers the Soviet Government has a vested right in the C.E.R. under the Sino-Russian Treaty of 1924. If the treaty rights of any nation ?even Bolshevik Russia?are not sacred in China, then the treaty prerogatives of other nations are clearly menaced. The Powers in order to uphold their own rights (such as Japan's hold on the South Manchurian Railway) were obliged last week to uphold Moscow's rights...
...first the Chinese Government's wiry little Foreign Minister, Dr. Cheng T'ing ("C. T.") Wang (Yale, 1911), vehemently asserted China's "right" to grab the C.E.R. The Treaty of 1924, he pointed out, provides that the Soviet railway personnel must not engage in Communist propaganda, a proviso often flagrantly violated. Right or wrong, however, Dr. Wang changed his tune when the screws of diplomatic pressure were applied. Presently the Chinese Foreign Office announced that...
...Soviet Government's interest in the C.E.R. has not been "nullified," and the Nationalist Government reaffirms that "all foreign interests in China for legitimate purposes will continue to be re-spected...