Word: manchuria
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Next day the Japanese Foreign Office learned that Statesman Stimson had absolutely refused to recognize the puppet régime Japan has set up in Manchuria. Hotly the Foreign Office's press spokesman burst out: "The United States cannot rob us of the fruits of our victory by withholding recognition of the new Manchurian State...
...most cursory examination of the memorial itself, however, is sufficient to establish it as a forgery. On the first page, the area of Manchuria and Inner and Outer Mongolia is given as 74,000 sq. mi. In point of fact, the area of Manchuria alone is 383,000 sq. mi. On the second page, the total investment of Japan in its "railway, shipping, mining, forestry, steel manufacture, agriculture, and cattle raising" enterprises in Manchuria is placed at 440 million yen. This figure, however, represents only the capitalization of the South Manchuria Railway Company; Japan's total investment in Manchuria...
...Last week the Japanese War Office finally gave way to domestic pressure, published its first official casualty list. Between Sept. 18 and Feb. 29 565 soldiers were killed, 2,204 wounded, in Manchuria and at Shanghai. Still secret are the navy casualty lists...
Secretary Stimson's statement, he says, seems to mean that if the present trouble should end by an agreement whereby China should cede to Japan any rights in Manchuria, the United States, Russia or any other signatory would have a right under the Pact to disregard them, if in its opinion they were acquired by other than pacific means. If this means that a signatory may intervene when the cession is made, and insist that it be modified, that has been done in the past and does not require the Pact of Paris. It was done by the Congress...
...Japanese military circles containing plans of campaign against the Soviet Union. Japanese military circles, and not only military circles, are considering the question of an attack upon the Soviet Union and the seizure of the provinces of Primarsk [of which Vladivostok is chief city] and Trans-Baikal [west of Manchuria...