Book Reviews : Defiance in Manchuria: The Making of Japanese Foreign Policy 1931-1932. By SADAKO OGATA. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1964. Pp. xvi, 259. $5.00.)

• Published date: 01 March 1966
• DOI: 10.1177/106591296601900144
• Date: 01 March 1966
• Subject Matter: Articles

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by Paul T. David, and a condensation of findings prepared by Robert S. Binkerd,
who also edited the individual state reports. Richard S. Childs of the National Mu-
nicipal League formulated and managed the project.
The questionnaire consists of eleven inquiries: (1) What regulation of party
activities for selection of delegates to the national party convention is imposed in your
state by law? (2) What do Democratic state party rules outside the law provide re
presidential primaries or selection of national convention delegates? (3) What do
Republican state party rules outside the law provide re presidential primaries or
selection of national convention delegates? (4) In actual practice in 1963-1964
was there substantial deviation from, or neglect of, above l, 2, 3 requirements? (5)
If a vote of party members was taken, what questions or candidates for the national
convention, or intermediate delegates, were submitted? (6) Obtain and relay to
League office an example of a ballot used in each party. (7) What contests, if any,
transpired? (8) If there was a primary election, on what dates, what per cent of
eligible voters turned out in each party, what per cent of total eligible voters of the
state attended primaries, were write-in votes provided for and was considerable use
made thereof ? (9) Could a voter (for instance, a Republican voter with a passionate
preference for Goldwater over Rockefeller) influence the outcome at any point by
his mere vote or by other procedure? And, if yes, was the outcome binding on any-
body in the subsequent procedures? (10) If the procedure elicited the preference of
voters between contesting aspirants for the Presidency, what difference would there
have been in the split in the state delegation if the latter were made to correspond?
(11) What, if any, instructions were laid, and by whom, on each national convention
delegation as to choice of presidential nominees?
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The foregoing inquiries were answered by respondents, most of...