...open door, the Contracting Powers other than China pledged themselves to the following principles: (1) To respect the sovereignty, the independence,...the fullest and most unembarrassed opportunity to China_to_deyelop and maintain for herself an effective and stable government; (3) To useTneif influence...

...nine of the powers represented signed a treaty for the open door policy in China. In this they agreed to use their influence for the purpose of effectually...establishing and maintaining the principle of equal 1 Times Current Hist. Mag., January, 1922, 545. opportunity for the commerce and industry of all nations...

...good and due form, have agreed as follows: ARTICLE I. The contracting powers, other than China, agree: (1) To respect the sovereignty, the independence,...and the territorial and administrative integrity of China;1 (2) To provide the fullest and most unembarrassed opportunity to China to develop and maintain...

...Treaties of February 6, 1922. In these latter treaties the contracting parties, other than China, agreed to respect "the sovereignty, the independence, and...territorial and administrative integrity of China" (Ibid., p. 371). Japan was forced to recede from the Twenty-one Demands. The British and the American...

...territory and concessions obtained by coercion from China entered into treaties which obligated them " to respect the sovereignty, the independence, and...territorial and administrative integrity of China." i957] THE NATIONALIST MOVEMENT 717 The same brief post-war period which has seen completed the remaking...

...administrative entity of China (at that time the Chinese Empire.) Five years ago, eight Powers agreed by treaty to respect the sovereignty, the independence and the...territorial and administrative integrity of China. The distinguished guest on my left was one of the men who made that agreement. Now it is demanded that...

...the four principles, two referring to the sovereignty of China are of importance to us at present: "(1) To respect the sovereignty, the independence,...maintain for herself an effective and stable government." In the application of these two principles to the foreign relations of China, it was soon discovered...

...China which had been previously established by the United States, and pledging the contracting Powers to "provide the fullest and most unembarrassed opportunity...maintain for herself an effective and stable government." Moreover, it was agreed that the customs duties under British administration, the better part of which...

...administrative entity of China (at that time the Chinese Empire.) Five years ago, eight Powers agreed by treaty to respect the sovereignty, the independence and the...territorial and administrative integrity of China. Now it is demanded that the Powers treat China as they treat each other in the family of nations. In...

...by the nine Powers, including the United States and Japan at the Washington Conference, Japan agreed "to respect the sovereignty, the independence, and...territorial and administrative integrity of China." But Japan is now violating every word of that committment. She has interferred in Chinese internal...