Word: manchuria
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...duty to forward the document to Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, with carbon copy for Geneva? Or should we leave the diplomatists to their own devices in finding out who started the trouble in Manchuria...
...Office, where velvet politeness is an iron rule, Press Spokesman Shiratori Toshio snapped: "If a man in Mr. Stimson's position loses his head at such a critical moment in the affairs of Japan, the consequences would be very grave indeed. . . . Mr. Stimson says the Japanese Army in Manchuria 'ran amuck.' This is considered a very bold statement indeed...
...Capital of Manchuria and storm center of Sino-Japanese difficulties...
Solution? Commission? Since privacy and the formula "appoint a commission" are twin keynotes of the Hoover Administration, observers were at no loss to explain the final action of the Council last week in attempting to persuade China and Japan that a Commission should be sent to investigate Manchuria...
General Dawes was understood to have broached this scheme to Mr. Yoshizawa, who broached it to the Council and China's Dr. Sze. Catching the Hoover forward pass cleverly, Mr. Yoshizawa proposed that the Commission investigate not only Manchuria but all China an investigation which if thoroughly pursued would last until long after the original members of the Commission had died...