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...last week Emperor Kang Teh of Manchukuo felt big. Next day he felt small. Newswoman Jane Grant made the Puppet Emperor feel big by interviewing him, with utmost reverence, for the New York Times. She backed out of His Majesty's presence and rushed off to cable: "The Emperor's face is studious and interesting and very expressive. At mention of any subject outside routine, his face lighted, his features were suddenly alive and his eyes were seen to be glowing with interest even behind his darkened glasses." Next evening the hollow-eyed Manchu puppet who lives with...
Stepping jauntily from his private car, Chichibu snapped a salute at the Puppet Emperor, then drew off his gloves and shook hands with Kang Teh. Japanese field guns began a long, long 101-gun salute for Prince Chichibu. When it was over he stepped into a Japanese limousine and whizzed off, leaving Emperor Kang Teh standing at the station. This, for a proper sovereign, would be the ultimate indignity, but the Puppet Emperor did not seem to mind. While the Japanese crowd rushed off to cheer Chichibu at the Japanese Embassy, the Emperor rode back to his palace. Hospitality...
...bitter whistling wind on the plains outside Hsinking, owl-eyed Henry Pu Yi announced to his ancestors on March 1 that he was about to become Emperor Kang Teh of Manchukuo. Later that day he buttoned himself into a Field Marshal's uniform and ascended his throne. Japan, which was the first and, so far as the world knew until last week, the last power to recognize his puppet government (TIME, Sept. 26, 1932), sent official congratulations. The League of Nations did not dare punish Japan directly for its invasion of Manchuria, but on the strength of the Lytton...
...than two years before the U. S. recognized him, knew only too well the penalties of nonrecognition. On Jan. 26 of this year, President Roosevelt was ready to admit the existence of President Martinez. Thirty-six days later President Martinez was ready to admit privily the existence of Emperor Kang Teh. But he apparently saw no urgent reason to make a scene over the face of that recognition, while the first excitement over a new Far Eastern empire was still boiling...
...Japanese were planning to turn the magnificent hunting lodge into a museum, when fire broke out in one of the wings. With extraordinary haste it raged around the open courts, wolfed palace after palace, cleaned up the ruins. Fearful Chinese who watched whispered: "It is the spirit of Kang...