...necessary to safeguard and advance those interests, provided always that such measures are not contrary to the principle of equal opportunities for the commerce and industry of all nations. IV. — Great Britain having a special interest in all that concerns the security of the Indian...

...concluded with England a treaty whose foremost aim was the 'preservation of the common interests of all the Powers in China by insuring the independence and integrity...the commerce and industry of all nations in China.' Again, in June, 1907, Japan took the initiative in exchanging with France a memorandum whose object...

...in the regions of eastern Asia and India. B — The preservation of the common interests of all the Powers in China by insuring the independence and integrity...Chinese Empire and the principle of equal opportunities tor the commerce and industry of all nations in China. C — The maintenance of the territorial rights...

...First, the treaty between Great Britain and Japan insures " the independence and integrity of China and the principle of equal opportunities for the commerce and industry of all nations in China.'' It would be in the highest degree unpolitic on the part of the Japanese Government to violate those...

...territorial integrity of China in Manchuria, or to agree to any stipulation for the maintenance of the principle of equal opportunities for the commerce and industry of all nations there, and requested Japan to declare Manchuria and its littoral entirely outside of her sphere...

...upon the heels of the war against Russia, Japan concluded with England a treaty whose foremost aim was the "preservation of the common interests of all powers...the commerce and industry of all nations in China." Again in June, 1907, Japan took the initiative to exchange with France a memorandum whose aim was the...

...the regions of eastern Asia and India. '' B — The preservation of the common interests of all the powers in China by insuring the independence and integrity of the Chinese Empire and the principle of equal opportunity for the commerce and industry of all nations in China. "C — The maintenance of the territorial...

...ambiguous. Its declared object is the maintenance of the "territorial rights" of Great Britain and Japan "in the regions of eastern Asia and of India and the defence of their special interests in said regions." The ambiguity lies in the doubt as to where the territorial interests which are to be...

...its preamble. One of its objects is said to be "the preservation of the common interests of all the powers in China by insuring the independence and integrity...the commerce and industry of all nations in China." Why the two contracting powers alone have undertaken the task which, in its very nature, ought t(i...

...necessary to safeguard and advance those interests, provided always that such measures are not contrary to the principle of equal opportunities for the commerce and industry of all nations. ARTICLE IV. Great Britain having a special interest in all that concerns the security of the...