Word: manchukuo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soong, without openly denouncing Generalissimo Chiang. has shown extreme distaste for his policy of conciliation toward Japan. With Soong out of the way, at least for a time, Chiang went the limit last week and announced regular railway service would be reestablished on Nov. 10 between China and Manchukuo for the first time in two years. He hinted that postal service would soon be restored, thus pointing to virtual acquiescence by China in the land grab by which Japan seized Manchuria and set it up as the puppet state Manchukuo...
...consent of the civilian Cabinet, Militarist Araki called in correspondents and proposed that Japan hold in 1935 a Pacific Powers Conference with three objectives: 1) "To revise the Nine-Power Treaty" (signed at Washington to guarantee the territorial and administrative integrity of China which Japan violated by seizing Manchukuo). 2) "To revise the Kellogg Peace Pact" (violated in effect by Japan's waging of undeclared war). 3) "To lay the basis for a new naval treaty...
...Tokio, invited all interested powers to gather and discuss the Asiatic problem with Japan, a proposal which was welcomed by the "interested" countries as an opportunity to return the snubs which the Rising Sun Empire has handed out these last few years. A Japanese offer of international arbitration over Manchukuo is a gesture lost upon these major nations whose own history contains so many examples of the well-known imperialistic principle, "Shoot first and be asked questions afterwards...
...Recognition of Russia, although it does not seem to be a factor considered by the administration, will make a tremendous difference in the balance of power in the east. It will so strengthen the Soviet's position in Manchukuo that she can refuse to sell her railroad rights except at a figure many millions higher than Japan has offered for them...
Proof of this has been well enough evidenced in Japanese sentiment, in the statements of the leading militarists, in the concentration of troops to the north of Manchukuo, in the nastiness over the Chinese Eastern Railroad. On the other side of the penny, Russia has hastened the building of the Turk-Sib tracks, strengthened the Vladivostok garrison with men and planes, and intimated pointedly that she would not yield a verst of land to anyone. Under these conditions of impending war (though Manchurian difficulties and the coming of winter may postpone the argument for a while), the introduction...