Why did it take so long for the League to make a decision over Manchuria?

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  1. Why did it take so long for the League to make a decision over Manchuria?

Manchuria is part of China and Japan wanted to take over it. When China asked league for help, the league couldn’t even make a decision quickly.

The League had to also find out a lot of information about what had really happened to those two countries and this can also take quite a lot of time.

The most important point here why the league took so long time to make a decision over Manchuria was because it was VERY POWERLESS. It’s very weak and even if it will make a decision, the Japanese won’t agree and it will be for nothing, because the Japanese’s power was much powerful than the whole League. And especially when many of the members are only thinking about their self, so they are thinking in the benefit that they’ll gain and the amount of lose that they’ll gain.

Japanese said that China was in such a state of anarchy that they had to invade in self-defence to keep peace in the area and also because the Japan was also one of the leading member of the League, so they have to think about it carefully. To have more details and balance everything.

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  1. Look at Sources 7 and 8. What criticisms are the cartoonists making of Japan and the League?

Source 7:

  From the source 7 we can see a long, big boy lying on the ground and his cloth seems quite poor and his name is ‘League’. The smallest person who’s standing on the ‘League’, wearing an army cloth is called ‘Japan’. From his shape and the way of standing we can see he’s very self-confident. The Britain might be the person that is trying to find something from the League’s face and the last person here is ...

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