Word: manchuria
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...would require many years of both economic and political effort to that end and that her progress would necessarily be slow. . . . The treaty was thus a covenant ... in deliberate renunciation of any policy of aggression which might tend to interfere with that development." Had Japan by its actions in Manchuria and at Shanghai violated this Nine-Power Treaty? Secretary Stimson apparently thought it had for he wrote: "Recent events . . . have tended to bring home the vital importance of the faithful observance of the covenants. . . . Regardless of cause or responsibility a situation has developed which cannot under any circumstances be reconciled...
...Cites Manchuria...
Mukden. As unobtrusive as a prestidigitator sneaking a rabbit into his hat was Japanese General Shigeru Honjo last week in Mukden, the capital of Manchuria. But Tokyo papers were quietly confident that "The Independent Government of Manchuria" would soon be proclaimed, thus severing 30.000,000 people who are 99% Chinese from China...
Chances were not too bright last week for Mr. Henry Pu Yi, former Emperor of China, who aspires to be Emperor of Manchuria. But Tokyo conceded that this weak young man with extremely weak eyes still has a chance to be chosen as Japan's Imperial Puppet. Furthermore, his proud Manchu mother, the daughter-in-law of his famed & terrible grandmother, the last real Empress Dowager, died last week...
...have remained on the gold standard if the army and navy chiefs had accepted a drastic cut in their budget appropriations, and said so. Somebody bombed his home in February 1931. The Wakatsuki Cabinet to which he belonged was forced out of office eleven weeks after the invasion of Manchuria began...