Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese War Minister General Sadao Araki harangued Japanese Fascists in Osaka: "We are determined to make Manchuria an earthly paradise and nothing can stop us! There is no need to pay any attention to the Washington Nine-Power Treaty or the Peace Pact. If the League of Nations interferes we need only ask, Is the League going to disturb world peace...
...course the Pact is not retroactive. If it were, our title to California, part of Arizona and New Mexico, to the Philippines and Porto Rico would be without international recognition. But for the future, unless wars are to cease entirely or are to be followed by no changes of territory, the Pact of Paris, with an interpretation whereby the signatories are under no obligation to prevent war, yet are at liberty to disregard its results, might well create more causes of strife than it would allay. It would signify that any nation could repudiate its treaties, and disregard those made...
...suspend commercial intercourse, as Japan knows full well; but while using whatever pacific pressure it can to obtain a fair settlement, it must ultimately recognize the situation that develops; and, if so, is it not wise to make clear that we do not claim an interpretation of the Pact that, if generally accepted, might make the relation of states more uncertain, more full of danger than if the Pact had been unsigned...
...Nations and the United States to the affair. Although its chronological summary of the diplomacy involved and its pessimistic prophesy for the future degeneration of the League are careful and thorough, the article's greatest importance lies in a penetrating criticism of the legal aspects of the Kellogg-Briand Pact and a presagement of international instability as a consequence of Secretary Stimson's January 7 letter, advocating the annulment of all treaties exacted by force...
That letter others have blindly eulogized as the only effective method of enforcing the Pact of Paris, as giving a new face to the shattered Nine Power treaties, and thus as the only feasible method of deterring Japan from further violence. But President Lowell has attempted to look beyond immediate effects and to discover, if possible, its ultimate significance. With a well buttressed premise that the Kellogg-Briand Pact is not, strictly speaking, a treaty and that it authorizes no enforcement against refractory signatories, the article moves on to predict portentous effects of the Stimson letter upon international relations...