Word: manchukuo
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...treaties," preparatory to stickling later for German respect of the treaty-created Polish Corridor, etc. Britain was said to have taken her new line because: 1) President-elect Roosevelt was reported by Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay to be resolved to continue the so-called "Stimson Doctrine" of nonrecognition of Manchukuo; and 2) Sir Miles Lampson, British Minister to China, was said to have cabled warnings that if the League fails to deal with Japan, China may declare in desperation a boycott so sweeping as to choke off not only Japanese but also other foreign exports to China...
...current League of Nations resolution censuring Japan's conduct in Manchuria, and proposing non-recognition censuring Japan's conduct in Manchuria, and proposing non-recognition of Manchukuo comes as a relief to all who questioned the results of the Hoover-Stimson declaration. The rapid decision of our state department to refuse recognition to a state created in violation of the Kellogg pact will, apparently, be vindicated by the League...
...coast. All plans for defense are predicated upon that possibility-including the presence of the Scouting Force west of the Panama Canal. Japan, rattling her sword in Manchuria as never before, is in strained relations with the U. S. as a result of the Stimson doctrine of nonrecognition of Manchukuo. In Tokyo there was no popular doubt that the massing of U. S. warships in the Pacific was a naval gesture against Japan. But diplomacy still kept a smiling front. Last month when the question of the U. S. maneuvers was raised in the Japanese Diet's budget committee...
...That Japan's custodianship of Manchukuo (i. e. of formerly Chinese territory northeast of the Great Wall) is "a new and effective guarantee that has been established for the maintenance of peace in the Far East" with "universal advantage thereby accruing to the peoples of the world" including "Chinese themselves." ¶ That Japan constitutes herself the defender of the Far East against Soviet encroachment, for "should the Red movement . . . gain in strength as a result of Chino-Russian rapprochement that would be a serious menace to peace in the Orient, against which Japan must certainly be on guard...
...Shanhaikwan, frontier city between Jehol and "China Proper" (Chinese of course consider Jehol and all Manchukuo part of China), the Japanese spoke their minds memorably. "We can assure the world we have no intention of advancing a foot beyond the Great Wall," said Japanese General Suzuki who was at that moment sitting well inside the Great Wall in Shanhaikwan at 40° below zero. "We have nothing to be ashamed of. The Chinese must come to us on bended knee...