How the United States “Led the League” in 1931

Benjamin B. Wallace

American Political Science Review, 1945, vol. 39, issue 1, 101-116

Abstract: Many times we have been told that the United States led the League in dealing with the Manchurian Affair of 1931. The statement is essentially false, but contains an element of truth in that the League did defer to the United States. It recognized that it could accomplish nothing in the Far East without American support and played for that support, but without getting it at the critical points. The United States Government did not lead—rather it deliberately chose to follow; it refused coöperation with the proposed first effort of the League; it supported, if it did not lead, the abandonment of the immediate issue represented by the Resolution of December 10 and the appointment of the Lytton Commission; and its leadership was clear only in the final substantive surrender represented by the Non-Recognition Policy.

Date: 1945
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