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INDEX



Sino-Japanese dispute-Continued.
  "Manchoukuo"-Continued.
    Oil monopoly-Continued.
      Manchuria Oil Co. and oil sales
          monopoly-Continued.
            Nine-Power Treaty pro-
            visions  and  open-door
            principle:
          Netherlands, 791
          U. S. and British discussions
              and actions, 709-710,
              710, 710-712, 713, 713-
              715, 723-724, 727, 744,
              749, 754, 756, 760,
              761-762, 766-769, 771,
              773; Japanese replies,
              725, 755, 767, 773-774,
        Soviet Union: Attitude of, 761;
            closing of Neft oil interests,
            723, 726
    Open-door policy (see also Oil
        monopoly:   Representations,
        supra):
      Assurance by "Manchoukuo"
          concerning maintenance of,
          73
      Foreign investments, 42-44, 78-
          79, 272
      Japanese monopolization of trade
          and commerce and limita-
          tion of foreign participation,
          56, 98-104, 214-215, 258,
          314-315
      Opium monopoly, Japanese, 25,
          314, 362
    Postal administration (see also Re-
        sumption of customs, postal,
        and railway service, infra),
        recommendations of League of
        Nations Advisory Committee
        and U. S. views concerning re-
        lations between foreign postal
        administrations and Manchu-
        rian de facto authorities with
        regard to postal traffic in
        transit through Manchuria,
        133-134, 177-179, 180-181,
        202, 216-217, 222-223, 243-
        244, 266-267
    Pu-yi (Hsuan-tung), 2-3, 4, 5, 25,
        29-32, 59-60, 61-62, 72-73, 77,
        84, 85, 91, 97, 159, 195-196,
        199-200
    Recognition by El Salvador, 189,
        194-195
    Resumption of customs, postal, and
        railway service between China
        and Manchuria, 107, 113-114,
        116-117, 173-174, 193-194,
        199, 203, 203-204, 208-209,
        215-216, 218, 220, 234-235,
        249, 274, 306, 319, 321, 336-
        338, 344-345, 346
    South Manchurian Railway, 43,
        312-313, 314



Sino-Japanese dispute-Continued.
  "Manchoukuo"-Continued.
    Troops of foreign governments in
        summer camp in North China,
        Japanese request that permis-
        sion of Kwantung Army be
        obtained for maneuvers north
        of Great Wall, and position
        of British Government con-
        cerning, 233, 307
  Mandated islands in Pacific, Japanese
      determination to retain posses-
      sion of after withdrawal from
      League of Nations, 24, 62-65,
      338-339; denial of alleged fortifi-
      cation of, 338
  Merchant fleet, Japanese, report on
      strategical value of new fast
      vessels in, 235-243, 323-329
  Missions and mission property in
      Hopei Province, request of Jap-
      anese official for information
      concerning, 92-94
  Mongolia. See Inner Mongolia, supra,
      and Outer Mongolia, infra.
  Naval Conference of 1935, effect of
      Far Eastern situation on ques-
      tions relating to: Japanese naval
      aims, 7, 23, 38, 120, 247-249,
      332, 333, 667-671; U. S.-British
      exploratory conversations, 171,
      199, 293; U. S. naval policy, 189-
      193
 Netherlands East Indies, trade with
      Japan, 286-288, 332, 333, 705;
      conference at Batavia concerning,
      287
  Netherlands Minister to Japan, views
      on Far Eastern situation, 331-
      334
  North China, Japanese plans for
      economic and political expansion
      in:
    Commission for the Settlement of
        Affairs Pertaining to the War
        Zone. See under Demands of
        Kwantung military leaders:
        Demilitarized zone, infra.
    Demands of Kwantung military
        leaders and concessions by
        Chinese local authorities:
      Chinese National Government,
          position of (see also Huang
          Fu and Tang Yu-jen, infra),
          50, 319, 320-323, 336-338
      Demilitarized zone established
          under  Tangku    armistice
          agreement of May 31, 1933,
          negotiations concerning, 234,
          301-302, 319-320, 320, 341-
          342; Commission for the
          Settlement of Affairs Pertain-
          ing to the War Zone, 301-302
      Economic cooperation, Japanese
          request for, 174, 245-246,
          306, 342