Word: manchukuo
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Normally League messages are flashed at staggering expense over the communication systems of member states. Last week's transmission cost the League only $125, brought to every land and clime the Report on Japan, China and Manchukuo just drafted and unanimously adopted by the League Committee...
Most important of all is this final, negative proviso: "It follows that, in adopting this report, the members of. the League intend to abstain, particularly as regards the existing regime in Manchuria [i. e. the "Government of Manchukuo"] from any act which might prejudice or delay the carrying out of the recommendations of the said report. They will continue not to recognize this regime, either de jure or de facto...
Whatever his motives, French League Delegate Rene Massigli startled the League Committee of Nineteen by proposing that the League Assembly (expected to meet this week or next) should declare not only for nonrecognition of Manchukuo by any League state, but should back this up by a declaration of noncooperation by League states with Manchukuo. In a strong speech British Delegate Captain Anthony Eden urged the Committee to urge the Assembly to declare "essential" the nonrecognition of Manchukuo...
Fair enough? Geneva's statesmen did not think so. Since the Lytton Report was drafted, they pointed out, Japan has recognized Manchukuo, has seized Shanhaikwan south of the Great Wall, has occupied parts of Jehol and launched a campaign to occupy the rest. If all those "circumstances" were to be considered by the League another Lytton Report would have to be made, and by the time it was finished there would be fresh "circumstances." Angrily the Committee of Nineteen proceeded to pop a big, blunt question back at the Japanese Government, would they or would they not agree...
...North, hollow-eyed Henry Pu Yi, Japan's puppet ruler of Manchukuo, wondered how soon he would be returned to his old home. A faction in the Japanese Supreme War Council was known to be waiting only for spring and the thawing of the roads to driv.e straight to Peiping and set Henry Pu Yi back on a throne in the Forbidden City...