Word: hued
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manchukuo (TIME, March 18). Last week the tubby but trig little advance agent for Japanese imperialism was back in Shanghai consuming highballs with correspondents and paying all the checks. Out over China's cables went his success story of delightful encounters with leading Southwest Chinese, such as Mr. Hu ("Hongkong Hu") Han-min, eminent apostle of the late, sainted Dr. Sun Yat-Sen "Father of the Chinese Revolution...
...other country such statements as General Doihara's would have forced leaders such as Hongkong Hu to confirm or deny that he had correctly unmasked their attitude. In China no amount of unmasking, denial or confirmation ever settles anything, and so far as Chinese were concerned last week, General Doihara's talk was just talk. In San Francisco indignant Chinese friends of Hongkong Hu announced off their own bats, without confirmation from him, that "Hu Han-min's policy has been and unalterably will be 'China for the Chinese, first and last...
...Canton and its clique of South Chinese generals can be sold, Hongkong Hu is the man to make the sale, discreetly. Last week he received General Doihara behind his iron gratings, then puffed an impressive smoke screen of anti-Japanese fulminations...
...Japan must abandon her attitude of dominance in the Far East!" cried Hongkong Hu. "She must drop all pretensions to sponsorship of an 'Asiatic Monroe Doctrine.' This ambitious doctrine-tantamount to Japanese assumption of superiority in the Far East-must be dropped if fruitful collaboration between China and Japan is to be realized...
...bluster preceding Hongkong Hu's "if" could be discounted. What came after was of vast importance. It implied that Canton, which for four years has baited the Chinese Government at Nanking with charges of "treachery to China," charges of "supineness toward Japan," may now be ready to yield to the blandishments of Tokyo and its Shanghai Lily. Such a development, in which monstrous Japanese bribes would play an inevitable role, may well prove for China the turning point in her 20th Century history, a turning toward Asia for Asiatics with Japan at the controls...