Word: manchuria
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...French journalists, whose deliberately provocative and skillfully insinuated ideas are apt to upset any Conference, got the statesmen at Geneva into a lather by "announcing" the "un-offcial suggestion"' from "high sources" that Japan be entrusted by the League with a mandate over Manchuria. Such journalistic ideas sometimes become facts. But the French press-playboys were so delighted with their furore that they next announced: "Japan is going to be given a mandate over all China...
...deplorable trouble at Shanghai comes at a time . . . when a mistake on the part of Japan will jeopardize her national existence. ... If Japan acts correctly at Shanghai, the powers will conclude that her actions in Manchuria are equally correct. If the powers find Japan is wrong in Shanghai they will conclude she must be wrong in other parts of China...
...Manchuria was Japan's last week. Harbin, last important city not occupied by Japanese troops, fell before the fierce frost-bitten fighters of General Jiro Ta-mon. Winter was Harbin's best defender. For seven days the fur-hatted Japanese columns struggled north over a frozen desolate country in a temperature of 30° below zero. Finally they closed in on the city from the west and south...
...participate in the meetings of all three of the Assembly Committees, small bodies which whip into shape the material to be presented to the plenary session of the Assembly for consideration and action. Leadership in the model meeting of the League Council, which will discuss the pressing crisis in Manchuria and in Shanghal, will likewise fall to the group representing the French delegation. These delegates anticipate a difficult task in defence of the French position, one which has been subject to severe criticism in the past few years...
...former prosperity of this nation." It amounts to the assertion that the simultaneous to the assertion that the simultaneous economic troubles of the various nations were mere coincidences, and that they have no real relationship to one another. Which is what the Japanese government said about the occupations of Manchuria and Shanghai...