Word: manchuria
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...great French Peace Man) were vociferously booed. Schoolchildren and monuments were all but forgotten when Ambassador Edge, speaking presumably for the State Department, uttered what sounded like the first breath of a more vigorous U. S. foreign policy. Obviously Mr. Edge was referring to Japan's seizure of Manchuria and to Germany's invasions of France when he said : "Americans are wedded to a fundamental axiom. ... On a national scale, and in international practice, this axiom would read. ... .A nation's primary right is to be free of fear of invasion! "Faith in the justice of this...
...curt, bristling National Hero whom Japanese crowds call adoringly "Our Devil Tycoon" and "Our Strong Shogun" returned last week to Tokyo in terrific triumph. He, Lieut.-General Shigeru Honjo, Conqueror of Manchuria, stopped en route at a mountain spa, and was literally mobbed by U. S. and British tourists who shoved, gasped and shrilled, "Please, General, please! Your autograph! Just one more?...
Said the Conqueror of Manchuria simply: "The Manchurian incident was more important than the Russo-Japanese...
...offices of the gendarmery, had their worst fears confirmed, rushed off to concoct new American Spy Extras. Spies' Report To Tokyo last week Japanese spies, ever industrious but often stupid, carried what they said was a copy of the League of Nation's secret Report on Manchuria, drafted at a cost of more than $400,000 by dyspeptic Lord Lytton's Commission (TIME, Sept. 5). Tokyo papers carried a 200-word summary of the 400-page report-a summary surprisingly favorable to Japan. Next day Japan's Foreign Office asked the League to delay publication...
...international ethics have advanced since the death of the pomaded Earl. The right of self-determination for any people, even one with fissiparous tendencies, is one that the average citizen of most countries believes in heartily. Even Count Uchida put forward as chief excuse for the invasion of Manchuria the idea that what they were really doing was helping a suppressed people, the Manchurians, revolt against Chinese authority...