Word: manchuria
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Korea s the nearest point of the mainland from Japan, and the samurai had no easy access to Manchuria, Siberia and China without first dominating Korea. So, the samurai were out to got Korea by chicanery. Since the signing of the first treaty in 1876, they wooed the Korean friendship. In declaring war on Russia the Japanese Emperor said, "Separate existence of Korea is essential to the safety of our realm." And Japan unduly influenced Korea to sign a treaty of defensive an defensive alliance against Russia on February 23, 1904. Article III of the treaty read: "The Imperial Government...
...decade ago Japan marched into Manchuria without resistance and world his tory turned a corner. Last week the greatest decade of aggression in history brought the world close to another corner...
...been Chiu I Pa. (pronounced Jo Ee Ba, translated Nine-One-Eight, meaning Sept. 18). On Sept. 18, 1931 a strip of Japanese-owned railway north of Mukden was blown up by a person or persons unknown. The Japanese Kwantung Army used the incident as an excuse to seize Manchuria in defiance of the Japanese Empire's treaty obligations. A crime condoned, the Manchurian Incident was followed by other acts of international brigandage until the entire code of international morality disintegrated...
...delegation to the London Naval Conference and was chairman of another disarmament conference committee that went to Geneva two years later, had its plans knocked into a cocked hat when Germany withdrew. Between times he suggested U.S. collaboration with Britain to stop Japan's invasion of Manchuria. (But appeasement-minded Sir John Simon icily ignored it.) He proclaimed again & again that the U.S. would recognize no territorial gains based on conquest. At every turn in his career for 30 years Henry Stimson's attention was focused on the international scene. He not only got around, meeting Mussolini, Laval...
Having sold the democracies the seizure of Manchuria, having helped to sell Japan on defying the democracies, Mr. Matsuoka was perhaps now on the point of either having to unsell the Japanese on their grandest aspirations or selling them out to Hitler...