Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Government, through Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay, terminated in an agreement whereby the U. S. and Great Britain decided to work shoulder-to-shoulder in protecting their citizens in Shanghai. Secretary Stimson also asked Japan, through Ambassador William Cameron Forbes, to make clear its stand in using the International Settlement as a base for military operations against the native city of Shanghai. He pointedly observed that the foreign section of Shanghai was already adequately policed, needed no armed reinforcements...
...Thursday night at 11:15 p. m. he began the systematic occupation of Chapei, the Chinese city stretching north of the rich International Settlement. He had in all about 3,000 troops-some 1,200 marines from his ship, some 2,000 of the Japanese garrison maintained in the Japanese section of the International Settlement. Armored cars with searchlights led the way. Behind them came trucks, jammed with infantry. In reserve were infantry, on foot. Crash! Crash! went the rifles shooting out the street lights as the columns advanced. At every corner trucks stopped. Men hopped out to scurry through...
...Article II of the Pact of Paris "the High Contracting Parties agree that the settlement or solution of all disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, shall never be sought except by pacific means". But this must be read in conjunction with the British Note of May 19, 1928, in which Great Britain reserved her freedom of action in "certain regions of the world, the welfare and integrity of which constitute a special and vital interest for our peace and safety"; and the Japanese Note of May 26, 1928, in which it was stated...
...Nine Power Treaty, Japan has assured the United States that she will do nothing against its provisions in the final settlement of the dispute. If her military and naval operations in themselves constitute a violation of the Treaty then she has sinned in company with Great Britain, the United States, and France, who all intervened in China during the crisis...
...minor phase. The important thing which you seem to have missed entirely is not the dispute itself but the methods which Japan has adopted to settle the issue. There is overwhelming evidence that Japan has made no honest effort to exhaust all possible peaceable means of settlement; that she has deliberately chosen the old-fashioned strong-arm method; that in doing so she has violated (in spirit, if not in letter) her international obligations. On these matters there is a peculiar unanimity of agreement. Now the issue up to us and the rest of the world is just this...