Word: shantung
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...Shantung the Ambassador says: "Japan promised China that she would withdraw her forces and return the Kiaochow territory to her: and she also offered to share with China, on an absolutely fair and equal footing in substance as well as in name, that section of the German railway which has come to her hands in consequence...
...last twenty years have seen the gradual expansion of Japan on the continent of Asia. When, at the beginning of the War, the attention of the nations was concentrated on Europe, she occupied Shantung and made the famous Twenty-one Demands on China which were designed to end that country's control over her own affairs, political, military and financial Japan has indicated by her actions, in contrast to the suave statements of her diplomats, that she has the aspiration of building up a Japanese empire on the continent of Asia. Consequently, though she may be willing to agree...
...kingdom--the independence of Korea--, and the Japanest domination of Manchuria, were among the first fruits of the Alliance. Without the Alliance the result of the Russo-Japanese War would have been different. In 1914, before--Japan mobilized to attack Tsing-Tao, the former German leasehold in Shantung, she called on Great Britain for joint action, basing her request on the Alliance. That was the beginning of this complicated international problem of Shantung, which the iniquitous decision of the Paris Peace Conference has made known the world over. Then the Shantung question started the notorious '21 Demands of 1915, whose...
...defined when he asked the European Powers to accept the Open Door as the foundation of their relations with China, the article which Philander Knox amplified when he proposed the neutralization of the Manchurian Railways, and the article which Woodrow Wilson repudiated when he consented to the cession of Shantung to Japan. An international agreement which initiated a promising settlement of the problem of China would accomplish as much for the future peace of the world as would a healing of the quarrel between France and Germany, and it would remove one of the most formidable obstacles to the limitation...
...accept the President's guidance "with increasing reluctance", were (1) the separation of the Covenant from the Treaty, (2) the doctrine of self-determination, (3) the proposed treaty with France, (4) the lack of an American programme, (5) secret diplomacy, (6) the system of mandates and (7) the Shantung settlement. The nearest approach to agreement came on the Flume question and was there confined to the principles involved...