Further down the report, the "Times" says : "The question whether the control over China which Japan now seeks might not more wisely have been established in cooperation with other Powers brought this reply :—' After what has happened since the Manchurian Crisis it has become evident to the Japanese people that the Western nations know nothing about Chinese mentality.

We were not prepared to take any economic steps at the time of the Manchurian Crisis to bring pressure to bear upon Japan, but, curiously enough, when Lancashire industrialists suffer in the cotton industry, we are prepared to take very rapid economic measures against Japan.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been drawn to an official statement issued in the United States of America on the Manchurian Crisis of 1931–32; and whether, in the interest of accuracy, he will see to it that the widest publicity is given to the official American version at the earliest possible moment?

Manchuria, American documents re Manchurian Crisis of 1931–32, 1517.

American documents re Manchurian Crisis of 1931–32, 1517.

Major Lloyd asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will approach the Government of the U.S.A. with a view to securing a copy of the documents, recently published by the State Department, exonerating this country from any breach of faith over the Manchurian Crisis of 1931, and then making it available in the Library of this House.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will approach the Government of the U.S.A. with a view to securing a copy of the documents, recently published by the State Department, exonerating this country from any breach of faith over the Manchurian Crisis of 1931, and then making it available in the Library of this House.

Both those factors - delays, slowness, and the necessity of intervention - held good at the time of the Manchurian Crisis, in 1931–32.