Word: tientsin
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...Nine Power Treaty and League of Nations commitments. What the U.S. action did was to encourage the British Government to put brakes on further concessions to Japan. The Tokyo talks between Negotiators Sir Robert and Arita reached a crucial stage. Japan demanded as the price of raising the Tientsin blockade that Great Britain cease supporting Chinese currency and turn over to her the Chinese silver stocks deposited in British Concessions. On this point Mr. Chamberlain has said that he would never yield. Last week, with the U.S. throwing a scare into the Japanese, concession seemed out of the question, even...
...Parliament Prime Minister Chamberlain denied that this was a change in policy. He declared emphatically that future discussions "will be confined to local issues at Tientsin" and Britain would not abandon her support of Chinese currency or right to grant credits to China. Again the Japanese thought otherwise...
...more Japanese way of telling Britain that she had better "rectify her conception of East Asia." It was carefully timed to coincide with the first of Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita's and British Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie's conferences to settle the month-old Tientsin blockade. At the first meeting between the two, Mr. Arita began by asking for an "accord of policy"-I. e., a recognition of Japan's "new order in East Asia." However the conference ends, Tokyo newspapers rejoiced over a preliminary Japanese victory-the "official" language of the conference...
...days last week the British Government persuaded itself that the worst of the Tientsin affair was over, that the Japanese, who had agreed to a conference at Tokyo, were willing to settle it as an isolated problem without discussing the fundamental issues-Britain's rights in her Chinese settlements and her privilege to help whom she pleases in the Sino-Japanese War. The British were heartened when the Japanese eased the blockade of the British Concession at Tientsin; partial milk delivery was resumed, food became more plentiful, and the stripping of British subjects was discontinued...
...week's end General Homma's simple peasants were again stripping Britons who crossed the Settlement boundary as the blockade became tighter than ever. The Japanese, moreover, let it be known that they had no intention of settling the Tientsin problem as an isolated issue and announced that the Tokyo conference would be the occasion for demands for British "cooperation." If the British refuse to reverse their whole policy in China, "the necessary action" will be taken to make "a fundamental solution of the concession issue...