Word: manchuria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese Civil War seemed about to spread to Manchuria, last week,-a development of gravest international consequence, since Manchuria contains many Japanese colonists. Swarming up from Nanking, the South Chinese armies of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek were on the verge of capturing Peking from North China Dictator Chang Tso-lin, whom they expected to drive pell mell into Manchuria. Therefore the Imperial Japanese Government sent duplicate stiff notes of warning to both Chinese factions, last week, thus...
...Japanese Government attach the utmost importance to the maintenance of peace and order in Manchuria, and . . . possibly will be constrained to take appropriate and effective steps for the maintenance of peace and order in Manchuria...
Protectorate. Among Chinese the threat from Tokyo was generally taken to mean that Japanese Prime Minister Baron Giichi Tanaka now purposes to carry his famed "positive policy" toward China to the extreme of establishing a de facto Japanese Protectorate over Manchuria...
Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg went so far as to add that the U. S. does not recognize any claim that Japan possesses special interests in Manchuria...
...world ever since the Open Door policy was adopted. Much as the abstract principle of liberty appeals to publics of every land, it would be almost too inconsistent for England to turn from her Egyptian "problem" or the United States from its Nicaraguan campaign to warn Japan out of Manchuria. But altruism by proxy is a favorite virtue of governments, and may yet save China from her neighbor...