Word: manchuria
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...news that their Government is taking specific steps to put the Army on a war basis. Ominously the Japanese War Ministry announced: "Although Soviet Russia's attitude toward Japan is at present entirely friendly it is impossible to forecast the future. Therefore, we must bring our forces in Manchuria to a state of efficiency, modernization and mechanization equal to that of the Red Army...
Undoubtedly Japan's "inflation boom" distracted her leaders last week from hard and ominous facts which they must sooner or later face. Government expenditures are running 70% ahead of current revenue, a catastrophic spread. Like all booms the current, superficial Japanese prosperity is basically unsound. With Manchuria still full of Chinese bandit-soldiers who are still full of fight, the Empire stands committed to further stupendous military expenditures, consequent further inflation of the yen and the most strenuous testing in 1933 of Japan's whole fabric, economic, fiscal, political...
Spain, Czechoslovakia, Sweden and the Irish Free State promptly led an effort to arouse the conscience of the Great Powers. Each of the "Little Four" rejected Japan's excuse that she seized Manchuria in "self defense"; all scored Japan for setting up in Manchuria the puppet state of "Manchukuo"; all pledged their Governments never to recognize Manchukuo and all accused Japan of violating both the Nine-Power Treaty and the Covenant of the League...
...Foreign Minister of Belgium, looked down his long straight nose at the Representatives of 55 states. As their chairman he had just called to order the Assembly of the League of Nations, meeting last week to consider the report of its Lytton Commission on Japan's rape of Manchuria - Japan contending that Manchuria was willing...
...practical solution, let us pass a sponge over the rest.' That is to say. 'Provided I can receive a dividend this year, never mind about the capital.' To this madness, Spain desires to say 'No!' The League Covenant will perish if we permit Chinese Manchuria to become Japanese Manchukuo...