The Archive · 1937

Lord Lytton Gives His View

World Guarantee Needed Over Manchoukuo Any suggestion that Great Britain London, June 28 should purchase Japan's friendship by recognizing Manchoukuo Japanese protectorate must be udiated as early and as clearly as possible, "declared Lord. Lytton, Chairman of the League of Nations Mission to Manchuria in 1932, when interviewed by Reuter to-dayton the forthcoming" Anglo-apanese con versations, The slarting point for a solution of the difficulties in the Far East was the position of Manchoukuo, asserted, It the Far Bast were to cease to ye a danger zone, Lord Lytton con tinued, a seitiement must be renched agreement acceptable to all parties concerned. The only visible Solution was the establishment of Manchoukuo as a really independent state guaranteed not by the presence of the Japanese army but by the Wishes of the inhabitants and an. International treaty to which all neigh-ours were pledged. This, he concluded, was an indispensable requisite to any durable seltiement of the Far Eastern, problem.—Reuter.

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