1. A. E. Hindmarsh, Force in Peace (1933), p. 160.
2. For an account of the Manchurian crisis see F. P. Walters, A History of the League of Nations(1960), 466ff.
3. M.J. Bonn commented: “The financial boycott did not imply much more than the moral sanctification of a prudent business-like attitude”. ‘How Sanctions Failed’, Foreign Affairs Vol. 15, 2 (1937), P. 354
4. P. Schmidt, Hitler’s Interpreter, ed. R. H. C. Steed (1951), p. 60.
5. Mackenzie King to the Canadian House of Commons, 18 June 1936. See W. A. Riddell (ed.), Documents on Canadian Foreign Policy 1917–1939 (Toronto, 1962), P. 575.