Word: manchuria
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...said that in its opinion "there must be forbidden not only wars in the form of the judicial meaning of the word but also such military actions as intervention, blockade, military occupation of foreign territory, etc". Yet in the very next year, the U.S.S.R. denied that its actions in Manchuria, which included armed invasion of Chinese territory, bombardment by land and air of Chinese frontier towns, and the defeat of the local Chinese troops, constituted an infringement of the Pact of Paris. No other Power supported the United States in invoking the Pact and the Soviet eventually succeeded in forcing...
...Juana, Mexico, Feb. 2--Leaving for San Francisco in hour stop none your business what doing Tia Juana stop wire fifty dollars care Chungking laundry San Francisco stop refuse cover Manchuria too cold stop advice urge Stimson urge Italian embassy. Washington urge Mussolini not protest stop gravity situation exaggerated stop war put Japan on copper standard stop dispatch today states Harbin Chinese lose five hundred, Japanese ten stop Japanese cant hold out long that rate stop Chiang Kaishek probably in new capital stop advice look west of Nanking stop didnt know there was Chinese navy stop will wire all developments...
First it was Manchuria, then Tsingtao, and last week Shanghai. It seemed as though Japan was deliberately asking for trouble. The raid oh Tsingtao fortnight ago was apparently a feeler to see how a world busy with its own problems would react to the invasion of Chinese territory. Results were apparently satisfactory. Last week Japan repeated exactly the same formula...
...program of the afternoon will be opened with a description of the situation in Manchuria to provide a slight background with which to preclude the actual hearings of the League Council which it provoked...
...rest of the world seemed too busy to pay much attention, but to thoughtful observers of Far Eastern affairs the seizure of Tsingtao was a hair-raiser. Tsingtao is not in Manchuria, has nothing to do with Manchuria. It is in China proper, a magnificent harbor, terminus of an important railroad...