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Turning to Japan, he said, "The deal between the Nazis and the Bolsheviks and the armistice between Russia and Japan over the Mongolian-Manchukuan border would indicate that Japan must reorient her foreign policy...
Executions- In Svobodny, a small Siberian town near the Manchukuan frontier. 44 Russian men and women were lined up before firing squads, shot dead. Not until after eleven days did news reach Moscow and the world. The Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the U. S. S. R. had found all guilty of spying, of plotting railway wrecks in Siberian military areas "on orders of the Japanese Secret Service...
...Peiping last week girlish hearts fluttered fast as news went round that an envoy of 30-year-old Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo, formerly known as Henry Pu Yi ("Boy Emperor of China"), had arrived from Hsinking, the Manchukuan capital, to inspect 100 "most beautiful and healthy girls between the ages of 15 and 20," who had been assembled by Chinese marriage brokers of renown and unblemished reputation. The envoy was performing this agreeable duty because the Emperor, whose present union with the beautiful Empress Peng Chi has not been blessed, is looking for one or more sturdy concubines...
...retinue of 74 accompanied the Chinese whom Japan would like to make Emperor of China as well as of Manchukuo. In this retinue the little round tummy of Mr. Ryusaku Endo was prominent. In Manchukuo he bosses the Emperor, holds the all-embracing title of Secretary General of Manchukuan Affairs. Last week he began by effacing himself so that for once in his life the puppet Emperor could shine...
...Tokyo he was quartered in Akasaka Palace, a replica of the Trianon Palace at Versailles and in 1922 the Tokyo residence of Edward of Wales. There Boss Endo suddenly popped up to announce: "While Emperor Rang Te is here no political matters will be discussed. None whatever. The Manchukuan Constitution effectively keeps the Manchukuo Court out of politics...