ABSTRACT
BY prohibiting all mention of Japanese encouragement of independence movements in Manchuria, Japan endeavoured to create an illusion of there being a spontaneous movement among the inhabitants, and it was in the hope of the declaration of independence being taken at its face value that recognition was delayed. There was no lack of demand for immediate recognition: many people thought it only logical that Japan should recognise the State that she had created, and the army was specially insistent. To the army, indeed, Manchuria was a military colony, and it was determined that none of the divided authority that had existed in South Manchuria should continue in the new State, but that it should be a military dictatorship.
