Japan and the Third Powers, Volume 1 (When Somewhat Fresh)

175 pp. 1 inch tear to top of dust jacket, small chip at bottom of dust jacket spine, jacket is age-tanned, light foxing (age spots) to outside edges, pages slightly age-tanned. Chapter 1: Violating the "neutrality" of the Port of Shanghai; Chapter 2: Bombing and machine-gunning sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, British Ambassador to China, and Party; Chapter 3: Telling Third Powers to get out of the way of indiscriminate bombings; Chapter 4: Proclaiming policy; Chapter 5:Staging a victory parade through the heart of the international settlement of Shanghai; Chapter 6: Seeking the "cooperation" of the Shanghai Settlement Council; Chapter 7: Revealing a phase of the Japanese military's true self; Chapter 8: Machine-gunning Shanghai defence outposts and killing a British soldier; Chapter 9: Attacking H.M.S. Ladybird and other British vessels, naval and mercantile; Chapter 10: Sinking the U.S.S. Panay and setting fire to three American merchantmen; Chapter 11: Heaping insult upon injury; Chapter 12: Heaping more insult -- slapping Mr. John M. Allison of the American Embassy. …