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...achievements of the Washington Conference", he went on to say, "until the next to the last session when I heard Mr. Hughes present the request of the American delegation to Japan. A new understanding has come between the two nations. We don't want the Japanese to stay in Siberia and we have told them so in frank words that all the world has heard. We want the remnant of the twenty-one demands, not yet abrogated, to be repudiated and have told them that, too, before the world. They have replied in diplomatic language to the effect that they...
...measurable test of the necessities of defense. For this reason there has been already injected into the consideration (though, I understand, not into the official discussions) of the Conference the question of Japan's position on the mainland across the Sea of Japan--that is Manchuria and Siberia...
...such monopoly, and yet the experience of Americans and others not Japanese indicates that Japan has used here possessions in Manchuria (including her railway rights) so as to discourage competition with Japanese traders, and that she his not hesitated to use military force to gain a position in Siberia that will lead to friction and even hostilities when Russia revives...
...Open Door in Asia means the open door in Manchuria and Siberia. The problem is so the leave the door open to commerce as not to provide an open way to Japan for some future enemy. A true Monroe Doctrine for Japan would entitle her to safety but not to an aggressive military policy or to economic special privilege. The Armament Conference is based on the same principle as the Open Door; and the Open Door hinges in Manchuria. In respect to both armament and the Far, East the purpose of the assembly of delegates at Washington is to substitute...
Obviously this is indefinite. It leaves unmentioned all questions of the Far East which lie outside of China--Siberia for example. It leaves China itself undefined; for China has no universally recognized boundaries or status