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The Japanese military seized control of Manchuria on a pretext and proclaimed it an independent state. The civilian government in Tokyo reluctantly went along with this.
The League of Nations had been created for exactly this situation: to intervene when a strong country attacked or bullied a weaker one. Now the League faced its first real test.
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