Word: treatyless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Japanese statesmen arose in the Tokyo Diet last week to insist that nothing would change that course. If the U. S. implemented the treatyless situation with an embargo, Japan would not sit there and take it. She would abrogate the Nine-Power Treaty (already a dead letter); or stop being the U. S.'s third best customer; or throw U. S. citizens out of China; or fight...
...speech opening the Diet, newly restored Foreign Minister Arita disclaimed any intention of eliminating "legitimate rights and interests" of the U. S. in China. This unctuousness, coming just after U. S.-Japanese trade relations fell treatyless, was punctured by a sentence which was a cactus of innuendo: International conflict, said Mr. Arita, is "largely due to the fact that some nations insist upon trying to maintain an irrational and unjust international status quo relative to race, religion, territory, resources, trade, immigration and other matters by adopting exclusionist policies or by abusing their superior positions...
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