Word: manchuria
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...Since hostilities broke out in Manchuria between China and Japan, Stalin has concentrated his attention on foreign policy. Since 1930 no diplomatic step has been taken without directions from Stalin. The Dictator has been profoundly disturbed by the repeated humiliations to which Japan has subjected Russian prestige in the Far East. He certainly counts on a Japanese attack. His whole strategy is therefore directed toward creating the most favorable attitude possible toward Russia in Europe in order to be able to meet the danger of Japanese provocation with as little risk as possible...
When Walter Runciman told the British public that Japanese trade was threatening Empire firms with extinction, he made an announcement of major diplomatic importance. Up till now England and Japan, despite small frictions, such as the invasion of Manchuria, have maintained cordial, gentlemanly relations; they were two empires with but a single thought. Today that situation is changed, drastically. The English fear trade competition, and this insidious snatch at the Empire's purse will hardly promote goodwill. If Japanese underselling continues, British neutrality in the East may fade away; and that, coupled with American recognition of the Soviet Union, should...
...Hearkened in blank amazement as Laborite Morgan Jones, who had gone to the House distraught from the sick bed of his dying daughter, hurled wildly at British Nobel Peaceman Sir Austen Chamberlain the charge that "By his speeches he encouraged the high-handed policy of Japan in Manchuria...
...sake go out and experiment with your theories and test your convictions. By arguing what is right or wrong you never get anywhere. Theoretical ethics is the bank. There is no right or wrong in international law. I can prove that Japan had a perfect right to do into Manchuria, in spite of the fact that it was entirely wrong from China's point of view...
...plain fact of the matter is that Japan looks upon possession of Manchuria and dominance in China as absolutely essential if she is to survive as a great power; and she feels that there can be no stability in this arrangement so long as the most potentially to powerful military state in the world is encamped in her back yard. With terrible clearness it becomes evident that she can take only one course: a "preventive war" must be waged on Russia before that country reaches the full maturity of its strength. By April or May, Japan will have consolidated...