Thomas Franklin Fairfax Millard, The A B C's of the Twenty-One Demands (1921)
“ It is plain that the Chinese Government proceeds to the fullest extent of possible concession in view of the strong national sentiment manifested by the people throughout the whole period of the negotiations. All that the Chinese Government strove to maintain was China's plenary sovereignty, the treaty rights of foreign Powers in China, and the principle of equal opportunity. ”
Thomas Franklin Fairfax Millard, The A B C's of the Twenty-One Demands (1921)
“ TWENTY-ONE DEMANDS Intelligent persons who are trying to follow the issues of the Conference on the Limitation of Armaments and Far Eastern and Pacific Ocean Questions at Washington hardly can have failed to notice the repetition by responsible Japanese statesmen, by the Japanese press, and with great frequency by writers of other than Japanese nationality, of the assertion that the policy of the Japanese Government is in no sense threatening to China, and is not conceived in a spirit of aggression upon the territorial integrity and political autonomy of China. ”
Thomas Franklin Fairfax Millard, The A B C's of the Twenty-One Demands (1921)
“ Shantung Province has a population of about 30,000,000. The region has been an integral part of China continuously since before the dawn of authentic history, and is peopled today by the descendants of families who have lived there for thousands of years. ”
