Word: lytton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soloed so expertly that critics complained sincerely about her playing so seldom in public. Wives and families of the players applauded so persistently that portly Conductor Clarence Evans got some real exercise bowing. But in all Orchestra Hall that evening there was none so proud as brawny, bald George Lytton who sat well back in the orchestra, hugging a bull- fiddle near Butcher Hugo Haberland...
First, with appropriate humility, he apologized for his "failure to make the other nations understand Japan's position," advised the Japanese not to waste their time on such "an unworthy servant." Second, he bitterly attacked the "attitude of superiority toward Asiatics" in British Lord Lytton's League of Nations Report on Manchuria. Third, getting his tongue into his bugle, he said, "Japan is in a position never to compromise in any way regarding recognition of Manchukuo...
...play was written by Mrs. L. J. Johnson, wife of Professor L. J. Johnson '87, who acted as Secretary-General of the League, and Sir Herbert B. Ames who took the part of Lord Lytton...
...object to the designation 'puppet state' for Manchukuo. That was one of the errors of the Lytton Report. There is a certain analogy between the Japanese-Manchukuo relationship and the United States-Cuba relationship, but there is also this difference: Japan did not first conquer Manchukuo and then give it virtual independence. Manchukuo sprang into being as an independent state. As such it is not a protectorate, just a friendly nation. . . . Your country has not made the sacrifices in developing its neighbors that Japan has made in Manchuria. I question whether the United States would permit the territory...
...questionable; and there is occasionally a suspicious naivete in the point of view. This may well be a defect of the stylist and not the historian. The writing of the book certainly is marred by a sort of false urbanity and lacks the flair for effortless insinuation such as Lytton Strachey displayed in treating of the same period. Despite these minor shortcomings, Mr. Wingfield-Stratford has probably written, the most comprehensive and enjoyable of all the recent books on the Victorians...