Caption: Convocation - 1942 Winter-Spring
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1 Prin pal Causes of /// War in the Far East i 53 tl! go> wnents e* pt th- I hm< ratifi ition of the ti fer to Japan. Al the {\\ Gern n rights in the province of Shantun [a| :H obtained the mandatory rights to mosl * irman islands i he |uat( with a total area about 3 large as Champaign count v in about 3 large as the United . UI ovei m expanse of 1 Al ut that time the Belgian prof sor, Angustin Hamon, wr : that ""Japan ursuing a policy of excluding tin- I lental I v . . in order to bring China within her sphere of influent " IK urther 1 thai Japan "has really remained in the Middle A as its mural civilization," but that China had "a pacific and in- strious population, which has reached a stage of moral civilization r in advance of that of 1 The k< and prophetic observation of Mr. II. M. Hyndman, written in 1919, might well have been heed I in this country: M awhile. Japan has the lead in the Far Ka and < 111s likely to keep it. flu- niaj< > of Englishmen and Americans . . . . have but a erfic 1 i« > the | f ibl spread of its influence in the near future . . . (Various | 5 believe that Japan is preparing, with the me reh tit • which she displa) I in making ready for her campaigns 2 lir ina and Rus to d J with the United Stat when time and unit) r. I r m< f the ten years, 1921 to 1931, Japan was controlled by a m< ite civilian gr up, who. while not devoid of imperialistic mbition, belie\ 1 in pro< ding by economic and scientific progre . : id thus •• .• ling th< IoSS< and hatreds incurred by the forcible meththe war party. In this time Japan agreed with other powers al lapan. d« pite the European polish of th< the \\ ington ( nference to let China work out her own govern- J pr blems and to k< p the capital warships of Japan within the rtion f tin • . against li\ ach for Britain and the United Stat A terrible irthquake in 1923 weakened and sobered the lapai; Th< partook of the great apparent prosperity in the world 11 until the financial crash of 1929. p< i,, p 1 the J a p a n e s e militarists took a firm control o\ the nt, and b fan the proa s of steady aggression winch is m tin 'I he first phase was the seizure of Manchuria, bc-innini I p |,in 17, and itions. I temporarily jn North maintained in spite of the adverse vote of th< ( In 1 2 they fought the Chinese at Shanghai 1 t from then In the next year the) penetrated fi> China. Then in 19 the) started actual wai on The) pursued the fid > that n hich has continued until now. not i but an incident The) claimed, with cust man 1 the I dnt they were working onl) for 1 . wl h v, 1 come when th< h • mo> mti Japan. element incliul v ii 1 inn. leader, Generali mi.. Chiang Kai shek, It) in; f,,i ihJv ports, cities, railwa) ind district they came to control
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