Word: manchukuo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...autonomous puppet states carved from Chinese territory and under the tutelage of Japan are Manchukuo, and the more recent "Mongokuo" in outer Chahar Province (TIME, March 29). Eastern Hopei Province, almost adjoining Peiping, is equally but less formally under Japanese control, has as its executive a toothy Chinese puppet named Yin Ju-keng (TIME, May 11 et ante). Puppet Yin avoids interviewers, has a hearty dislike of being photographed with his chunky Japanese military advisers, but last week a snowstorm kept him overnight in the port of Tientsin and Correspondent A. T. Steele of the New York Times, visiting...
...This is a revolutionary government. Its purpose is to overthrow the Nan king Government by political means. We welcome and hope for co-operation from other regimes in China, but this must be based on friendship with our good neighbors, Japan and Manchukuo...
Further investigation proved that Hopei's finances are backed by the Japanese Bank of Korea, that it already sends a virtual Ambassador to Manchukuo, will shortly send another to Tokyo...
Mongokuo has long had its own post office, issues its own stamps for internal use. Letters going "abroad" are handled by Manchukuo's post office. Mongokuo even flies its own flag, blue with a square of horizontal red, yellow, white and black stripes in one corner...
...months past military equipment from bullets to airplanes has poured in from Manchukuo. Some of the planes bear the Japanese emblem of the Rising Sun, others the crossed thunderbolts of Prince Teh. All Mongokuo's tanks and planes are in charge of Japanese mechanics...