ABSTRACT
THAT THE OUTBREAK of the Manchurian crisis on September 18, 1931, was not an isolated incident, but that it was merely the culminating incident of a long series of events which finally set fire to the tinder box of Far Eastern politics is generally agreed.1 Before undertaking to analyze the procedure followed in the Sino-Japanese dispute following the Mukden incident, therefore, we shall first examine briefly some of the more important forces and factors which precipitated the crisis in the fall of 1931.
