Word: korea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Empire but is now certainly not a very celestial republic are, even among the well informed, extraordinarily diverse. One has only to read two such books as "The Fight for the Republic in China" by B. L. Putman Weale (pen name of Bortram Lenox-Simpson) and "China, Japan, and Korea" by J. O. P. Bland to learn how doctors disagree over this enfeebled and turbulent patient. No one can reasonably expect all her ills to be cured at this Conference; but there is good reason for expecting something to be done to alleviate them and even more to minimize...
During the last twenty years there was not one act of aggression of Japan on the continent of Asia that could not be traced to the existence of the Alliance. The Alliance was concluded in 1902. The defeat of Russia, the passing of one kingdom--the independence of Korea--, and the Japanest domination of Manchuria, were among the first fruits of the Alliance. Without the Alliance the result of the Russo-Japanese War would have been different. In 1914, before--Japan mobilized to attack Tsing-Tao, the former German leasehold in Shantung, she called on Great Britain for joint action...