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Three weeks ago U. S. Secretary of State Stimson addressed the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, referring to his efforts in January 1932 to stop the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. Said Statesman Stimson...
Last week the League of Nations' commission to Manchuria under Lord Lytton was still in China finishing its voluminous report on the invasion, preparatory to taking it to Geneva. No official announcement was made but every one felt sure that the report would hold Japan guilty of aggression. The Japanese Government had not the slightest intention of modifying its Manchurian policy one iota but it was burningly anxious to know just how far the U. S. and Europe would back their "moral indignation." European reports were reassuring. British editors were as indignant as those in the U. S. but British...
...appears that in certain quarters a plan is being considered to reach a solution . . . by investing China proper in one form or another with authority over Manchuria. . . . The People of Japan can never consent to a solution of that kind...
...became temporary Prime Minister. He was created successively a Baron, Viscount and Count and served on the Privy Council from 1924 to 1929. In 1928 he signed the Briand-Kellogg pact for Japan. In 1931 just before the Manchurian question became acute he was appointed president of the South Manchuria Railway. Japanese regarded the appointment as an effort to lift that all-important job above party politics...
...peace of the world, his critics should remember Japan's position?an overpopulated, earthquake-ridden string of islands faced with grave unemployment and a rickety currency, with little chance of squeezing her citizens through the immigration restrictions of the West. Hundreds of thousands of Japanese believe that rich, undeveloped Manchuria is their only hope of salvation. When Count Uchida was born, what Japan is doing now would not have excited protest. When Count Uchida was nine years old, the Prime Minister of Britain was a brilliant, dapper Jew, Benjamin Disraeli, later Earl of Beaconsfield, who preached exactly the same sort...