The Manchurian Open Door Question
What will grow out of the attempt by Secretary Knox to make Manchuria an open door and place it under international control is hard to foretell. Both Russia and Japan are decidedly against it. The effort of the secretary was to secure a genuine open door; possibly to help China to hold that which belonged to her, and take from her northern border powers that really menaced her independence. It really looks as tho both Russia and Japan were determined to hold that old battleground for further use; and it is even now intimated that they are looking to a possible near future war with each other, or with China, in the same territory. An exchange remarks that "the refusal of the two powers is not reassuring."