Word: manchuria
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...Hotly debated Manchuria and Shanghai, Labor Party Leader George Lansbury contending that "China must receive reparations for Japan's ghastly blunder'' while British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon warily supported the Japanese thesis that Manchuria spontaneously revolted against China and set itself up as a separate state...
When Laborites shouted that everyone knew Japan has set up a puppet regime in Manchuria, lawyerlike Sir John softly replied, "That may be so, but nobody is entitled to say so except on the principle that one is at liberty to pronounce judgment without waiting for an investigation and in the face of the denial of one of the parties...
...posts at the military clique's behest, appropriating all the money demanded by the fighting services and nastily adjourning the Diet before worse should befall. The Opposition (Minseito) Party, not daring to oppose, wailed a public prediction through the lips of Deputy Gotaro Ogawa that Japan's occupation of Manchuria will soon have cost 300,000,000 yen ($100,000,000 current rate)?a vast sum for Japan...
Militarist Araki (a devoted husband and father) beautifully threatened Japanese withdrawal from the League of Nations "if its commission [now investigating Manchuria] continues to show ignorance of Far Eastern conditions." Demanding that more Japanese troops be sent to Manchuria, General Araki said (as nearly as his flowerings can be translated) : "The problems confronting the Empire's defense arm are of such magnitude and profound importance as to transcend those of our Siberian expeditions in 1918 [when Japanese and other Allied troops penetrated far into Soviet territory]. From certain viewpoints the present situation is even more serious than the Russo-Japanese...
Publicist Rowell, 64, is less active than he used to be, but still writes a daily editorial syndicated among western papers. Early this year he visited Manchuria, has since been lecturing and writing on Oriental politics...