265: Foreign Commentary Changes Nothing

Members of the Lytton Commission examine the South China Railway track at the site of the explosion which the Japanese used as justification for occupying Manchuria.

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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