ABSTRACT
Marco Polo bridge incident might yet be feasible. But the terms offered by the Japanese Army to the Peking authorities proved impossible from the start. Once more the Japanese Army had confronted the Tokyo Cabinet with a jait accompli, and once more the Cabinet were virtually powerless in face of the outburst of well-organized nationalistic opinion which supervened. Step by step Japan allowed her militarists to involve her in a full-scale Sino-Japanese war which, by certain processes set forth in this book-some ineluctable, some the sport of chance-was to lead to the crowning folly of the attack on the great Western Democracies. But when we arrived in Japan the final outcome was still hidden in the dim mists of the future.
