What happens
Japan's seizure of Manchuria in 1931 is traced through the League of Nations, where Chinese delegate Dr. Alfred Sze appeals for action while Japanese delegate Yoshizawa remains silent. The League votes for Japanese withdrawal, Japan rejects the terms, and the Lytton Commission reports. Japan then walks out of the League, and the story follows the widening pattern of aggression through Italy's invasion of Ethiopia and the 1937 Marco Polo Bridge incident in China. Owen Lattimore, director of the School of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University, comments on the events. The episode is part of the NBC series The Pacific Story, broadcast on September 26, 1943.
The League of Nations in Geneva, Manchuria, Ethiopia, Peking and Whanping, and the United States, from 1931 to 1941
Characters: Dr. Alfred Sze, Yoshizawa, Benito Mussolini, General De Bono, Ducci, Owen Lattimore, Winston Churchill, Chiang Kai-shek
Listen for: The Chinese appeal to the League of Nations in 1931 and Japan's walkout that followed
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.