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Spain, Czechoslovakia, Sweden and the Irish Free State promptly led an effort to arouse the conscience of the Great Powers. Each of the "Little Four" rejected Japan's excuse that she seized Manchuria in "self defense"; all scored Japan for setting up in Manchuria the puppet state of "Manchukuo...
Bounding to his feet after Sir John sat down, Spain's Salvador de Madariaga cried: "Practical men, whose political shortsightedness is incurable, would like to limit our efforts by saying 'Provided we can reach a practical solution, let us pass a sponge over the rest.' That is...
These preliminaries over last week. Delegate Matsuoka hurried on to Geneva and presented to the League a 40,000-word rebuttal to the Lytton report on Manchuria which she had made Manchukuo. It was simple and blunt. Japan denies that in invading Manchuria she violated either the League Covenant, the...
Perhaps the most difficult among which held against the attempt to ratify the League Covenant in America was the provision setting up armed sanctions against nations who violated the peace. With the late mistaken venture into the morasses of European diplomacy and politics still uppermost in their memories, the American...
He's Got Religion! "In our first or very general circle," began leonine Paul-Boncour, stroking his handsome mane, "it is simply a question-to use almost textually the expressions which on two occasions the American Secretary of State has used-of considering that since by common accord all...