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In 1899 and 1900 Secretary of State John Hay had unilaterally asserted the "Open Door policy" to Asia. It was, he declared, the right of all countries to equal trading opportunities in China. Two decades later, in 1922, the Open Door was made international law in the Nine Power Treaty. In 1931, after Japan occupied the region of China known as Manchuria in direct defiance of the Open Door Policy, tensions ran high between Washington and Tokyo. President Hoover's secretary of state, Henry L. Stimson, viewed the Japanese invasion and takeover of Manchuria as a challenge to U.S. foreign policy in the East. The Stimson Doctrine of January 1932 called for the United States to refuse recognition of the Japanese puppet government in Manchuria. After Roosevelt became president his secretary of state, Cordell Hull, sent occasional notes of protest to Japan, but...
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