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...desks, they prepared to make Imperial Japan such an outcast as no Great Power has ever been made before. In the Assembly lobby only Hugh S. Gibson, tall, sleek U. S. Ambassador to Belgium, was seen to smile at and briefly chat with small, tense Japanese Chief Delegate Yosuke Matsuoka, a diplomatic Napoleon who knew he stood at Waterloo...
...TIME, Feb. 27), recommendations which include withdrawal of Japanese troops from territory they have seized and nonrecognition by League countries of Japan's puppet state, "Manchukuo." Before a vote was taken Chinese Chief Delegate Dr. W. W. Yen accepted the recommendations with gusto, heard Japan's Matsuoka reject them with fierce eloquence: ''Manchuria belongs to us by right! Read your history. We recovered it from Russia! We made it what it is today!" Suddenly and significantly up popped Foreign Minister Dr. Zaunius of Lithuania...
Straight down the list every nation then answered either "oui" or "yes" until Mr. Matsuoka barked his sharp...
Exit Japan. In loud, decisive tones Yosuke Matsuoka read to the League Assembly milder words from Tokyo than had been expected. He implied rather than announced Japanese withdrawal from the League. "The Japanese Government are obliged," he read, "to feel that they have now reached the limit of their endeavors to cooperate with the League regarding the Chino-Japanese differences...
...Uchida, who was most earnestly counseled by the Last of the Genro ("Elder Statesmen") Prince Saionji not to break with the League "until every possibility of compromise has been exhausted." The Count flashed fresh instructions to Japan's Geneva Delegation. Soon with a face all crinkling smiles Delegate Matsuoka announced that Japan accepts the League's Lytton Report as a basis for conciliation, merely stipulating that the League shall "take into consideration actual conditions in Manchuria since the conclusion of the Lytton Report...