Word: lytton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan's representative, Dr. Haruichi Nagaoka, who drew whispers of "ye-ah?" and derisive laughter several times during his plea that "floods, mud and storms at sea" have so delayed transmission of the Lytton Report on Japan's occupation of Manchuria that release and discussion of the Report by the Council must be long delayed. League presses were at that very moment printing the report for, as China's Dr. W. W. Yen scathingly observed, there happen to be such things as telegraphs, cables and radio...
...concoct new American Spy Extras. Spies' Report To Tokyo last week Japanese spies, ever industrious but often stupid, carried what they said was a copy of the League of Nation's secret Report on Manchuria, drafted at a cost of more than $400,000 by dyspeptic Lord Lytton's Commission (TIME, Sept. 5). Tokyo papers carried a 200-word summary of the 400-page report-a summary surprisingly favorable to Japan. Next day Japan's Foreign Office asked the League to delay publication of the Lytton Report (scheduled to appear this week), for at least another...
Last week the League of Nations' commission to Manchuria under Lord Lytton was still in China finishing its voluminous report on the invasion, preparatory to taking it to Geneva. No official announcement was made but every one felt sure that the report would hold Japan guilty of aggression. The Japanese Government had not the slightest intention of modifying its Manchurian policy one iota but it was burningly anxious to know just how far the U. S. and Europe would back their "moral indignation." European reports were reassuring. British editors were as indignant as those in the U. S. but British...
Careful of their skins, the five delegates of the League of Nations Commission on Manchuria (headed by the Earl of Lytton) abandoned last week their announced intention of inspecting Northern Manchuria and taking testimony from famed Chinese General...
Safe in Harbin, Lord Lytton, a former Viceroy of India, decided to send into the dangerous North a subordinate member of the British delegation, William Waldorf Astor, eldest son of Lord & Lady Astor. Promptly U. S. Delegate Major General Frank McCoy volunteered to send with Mr. Astor his aide, Lieut. William S. Biddie of Portland, Ore. (no kin to Philadelphia's Biddies). By airplane Scouts Astor & Biddle left for Tsitsihar, flying over Manchurian steppes infested with Chinese soldiers and bandits...