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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 Kellogg Pact, or the Nine Power Treaty guaranteeing Chinese sovereignty. Japan denies that Manchuria is an integral part of China. Japan denies that her army acted except in self defense. Once again Japan makes the excuse that she merely protected a revolt-started by Manchurian nationalists. Japan will neither accept...
...League Council chair while Mr. Matsuoka talked, sat President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State. Once or twice Lord Lytton reddened as the Japanese diplomat gave the Lytton Report the courteous lie direct. With head thrown back China's Smart Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo stared at the ceiling until Mr. Matsuoka sat down and the council recessed...
...East and the Lytton Report," will be the subject of an address to be given tonight by A. N. Holcombe '06, professor of history, at the first meeting of the year of the International Council. This gathering is open to all students interested in economics, history, government or international affairs. It will be held in the Phillips Brooks House at 7.30 o'clock tonight...
Facts found. Casting out hypocrisy, the Lytton Report defines the relations of China and Japan today as "war in disguise...
With Chairman Lytton worked the "unofficial" U. S. commissioner, dynamic, fact-ferreting General Frank Ross McCoy (close friend of President Roosevelt) and the three "official" Commissioners: French General Henri Claudel, who commanded the ist French Colonial Corps (African) in the War; German Dr. Heinrich Schnee, last Governor of German East Africa (1912-19); and Italian Count Aldrovandi-Marescotti, recalled in 1929 from his post as Ambassador to Germany because a copy of Il Duce's most private code had vanished inexplicably from the Berlin Embassy...