Why didn't the hoover administration respond more strongly to japan's invasion of manchuria?

The Hoover administration was busy dealing with the Great Depression at the time of the Manchurian Incursion, and the administration opposed any economic sanctions against other nations, fearing it would lead to war. They just sent a note to Japan and China called the Stimson Doctrine.

d. the great plains       hop3 this yo

a phrase from a poem by ralph waldo emerson about the battle of lexington and concord. emerson's words read, “here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard round the world.”