Word: lytton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back Where They Belong! Organically the Report consists of four parts: Part One bodily incorporating eight chapters of the League's Lytton Report (TIME, Oct. 10); Part Two rehearsing subsequent developments in 15 phases; and Parts Three & Four which set forth overlapping conclusions & recommendations...
...Genro ("Elder Statesmen") Prince Saionji not to break with the League "until every possibility of compromise has been exhausted." The Count flashed fresh instructions to Japan's Geneva Delegation. Soon with a face all crinkling smiles Delegate Matsuoka announced that Japan accepts the League's Lytton Report as a basis for conciliation, merely stipulating that the League shall "take into consideration actual conditions in Manchuria since the conclusion of the Lytton Report...
Fair enough? Geneva's statesmen did not think so. Since the Lytton Report was drafted, they pointed out, Japan has recognized Manchukuo, has seized Shanhaikwan south of the Great Wall, has occupied parts of Jehol and launched a campaign to occupy the rest. If all those "circumstances" were to be considered by the League another Lytton Report would have to be made, and by the time it was finished there would be fresh "circumstances." Angrily the Committee of Nineteen proceeded to pop a big, blunt question back at the Japanese Government, would they or would they not agree...
...Lytton Report denounced Japan for seizing Manchuria and branded "Manchukuo" as a mere name coined by Japan to strengthen her pretense that Manchuria spontaneously revolted from China. It was War Minister Araki who brushed aside the Lytton Report as "an interesting travelogue." It became just that in Geneva last week as League statesmen drafted a resolution under which the League Assembly would virtually abandon any attempt to enforce the Lytton findings, thus bowing to "The Way of the Perfect Emperor"-i. e. to Japanese threats of withdrawal from the League...
...Teheran, Persia and brought up in whatever foreign posts his family happened to be, he served his country in France, Spain, Turkey, Geneva. Persia, Germany. In 1929, unable to contain himself any longer, he resigned, joined forces with the "Bloomsbury Group" (John Maynard Keynes, Virginia Woolf, the late Lytton Strachey), took to ink. His first books were biographies of Tennyson, Byron, Swinburne, Verlaine. No mere filial pietist, he wrote a biography of his father that might stand as a monument to the "old" diplomacy...