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Japan's Mandate in the Pacific

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2017

E. T. Williams
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Japan has refused to submit to the decision of the League of Nations which condemns the invasion of Manchuria in September, 1931, and the setting up there of a so-called“independent state of Manchukuo,” and has announced her withdrawal from the League. Should Japan's connection with the League be actually severed at the end of the period of two years' notice required by the Covenant, the continuance of her mandate over certain islands in the Pacific is sure to be called in question. The matter is one that is already disturbing several governments. Japanese statesmen insist that their mandate will not be affected by Japanese withdrawal from the League. Certain German statesmen think that the islands ought to be returned to them.

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Research Article
Information
American Journal of International Law , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , July 1933 , pp. 428 - 439
Copyright
Copyright,© by The American Society of International Law 1933

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References

1 My Diary.

2 See also Lansing, The Peace Negotiations, pp. 213-214.

3 Lansing, op. cit., p. 214.

4 Lansing, op. cit., p. 239.

5 My Diary.

6 Minutes of Council, Archives of Department of State.

7 My Diary.

8 My Diary under one date has this entry: “ At this point” three prominent members of the council (names given) “ were sound asleep.”

9 Archives of Department of State.

10 My Diary.

11 My Diary.

12 Text of Covenant of League, Art, XXII.

13 My Diary.

14 Art. XXIII, (b) (c) and (d). The article does not refer alone to mandated territories, but is more general in application.

15 Archives of Department of State.

16 Lansing, op. cit., p. 245.

17 Idem.

18 Official Report of Conference.

19 Report of American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1932; Micronesian Mission.

20 Report to the League, 1930.

21 Article 1 of the Covenant.