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...Article II of the Pact of Paris "the High Contracting Parties agree that the settlement or solution of all disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, shall never be sought except by pacific means". But this must be read in conjunction with the British Note of May 19, 1928, in which Great Britain reserved her freedom of action in "certain regions of the world, the welfare and integrity of which constitute a special and vital interest for our peace and safety"; and the Japanese Note of May 26, 1928, in which it was stated...
...Nine Power Treaty, Japan has assured the United States that she will do nothing against its provisions in the final settlement of the dispute. If her military and naval operations in themselves constitute a violation of the Treaty then she has sinned in company with Great Britain, the United States, and France, who all intervened in China during the crisis...
...minor phase. The important thing which you seem to have missed entirely is not the dispute itself but the methods which Japan has adopted to settle the issue. There is overwhelming evidence that Japan has made no honest effort to exhaust all possible peaceable means of settlement; that she has deliberately chosen the old-fashioned strong-arm method; that in doing so she has violated (in spirit, if not in letter) her international obligations. On these matters there is a peculiar unanimity of agreement. Now the issue up to us and the rest of the world is just this...
...munitions nor other help from abroad, while the Japanese can do so to an extent depending on how much they can afford to spend for them. The second reason is that the United States is one of the powers involved in the government of the International settlement in Shanghai. The Japanese are making it a base for operations against the Chinese. To maintain strict neutrality we must prevent their doing this, and that means a good deal more than we are doing now. Therefore so long as we do nothing, we are really helping the Japanese. There is no possibility...
...include thousands of acres of farm land, nine sawmills, 104 lumberyards, 292 miles of railroad, and the entire town of Longview, Wash. at the junction of the Columbia & Cowlitz rivers. With its bank, hotel, motion picture house, fire department, "Y," docks, tennis courts, schools, it is a model, moral settlement. Paternal & religious, Robert Alexander Long delights in the title of Founder. "Men in business today need many friends," is one of his maxims. By his side for 53 years Robert Long had someone who filled that need. It was his wife Ella whom he married the day he went into...