Word: manchuria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indefinite and un-measurable test of the necessities of defense. For this reason there has been already injected into the consideration (though, I understand, not into the official discussions) of the Conference the question of Japan's position on the mainland across the Sea of Japan--that is Manchuria and Siberia...
...establishing a monopoly of privilege in what is certainly one of the richest undeveloped regions of the world. It is urged on behalf of Japan that she seeks no such monopoly, and yet the experience of Americans and others not Japanese indicates that Japan has used here possessions in Manchuria (including her railway rights) so as to discourage competition with Japanese traders, and that she his not hesitated to use military force to gain a position in Siberia that will lead to friction and even hostilities when Russia revives...
...just take the case of Manchuria that the Ambassador refers o in his article...
...would not allow any meddling in the territories which they considered as their spheres of interest. At present practically all the railways are run by semi-Japanese Government officials, and by unfair treatment of foreign merchants and deliberate cheating of the Chinese tax officials the only significant trade in Manchuria at present in Japanese trade. Her officially acknowledged ambitions are clearly revealed in Group H of the notorious Twenty-One. Demands prescribed to China in 1915, with an ultimatum...
...there was not one act of aggression of Japan on the continent of Asia that could not be traced to the existence of the Alliance. The Alliance was concluded in 1902. The defeat of Russia, the passing of one kingdom--the independence of Korea--, and the Japanest domination of Manchuria, were among the first fruits of the Alliance. Without the Alliance the result of the Russo-Japanese War would have been different. In 1914, before--Japan mobilized to attack Tsing-Tao, the former German leasehold in Shantung, she called on Great Britain for joint action, basing her request...