Word: manchukuo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...darkness fled across one side of the earth as the moon passed in front of the sun. Like a crow's shadow, at dawn the eclipse trailed over Athens, leaped the Golden Horn, spanned the Black Sea, darkened Omsk, Tomsk, Kansk, crossed the Khingan Mountains into Northern Manchukuo, the Japan Sea into the Island of Hokkaido, then passed 2,800 mi. out into the Pacific where it spent itself at sundown...
...great Fuji Gas Spinning Co., to exclaim: "Our cotton industry will suffer a severe blow, and it is necessary to take immediate countermeasures. It would be impossible to prohibit all American cotton imports, but we can reduce them by 20% or 30%, by substituting cotton from Egypt, Brazil, Manchukuo and China...
...turn every foreign legation in Addis Ababa. Clicking his heels he explained politely that each envoy would enjoy "every diplomatic privilege until the time of your departure." It was Italy's first official notification to the world that henceforth Ethiopia was not even to be considered another Manchukuo, but an out & out Italian colony...
More butter was smeared on by General Jiro Minami, until recently ambassador-boss and commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army in Manchukuo. Said he last week: "The improvement of policing, development of commerce and maintenance of cordial relations with neighbor States are the Kwantung Army's cardinal policies...
...puppet Empire of Manchukuo, with the Japanese. Army jerking the strings, last week hurled fast-moving military detachments into Inner Mongolia and seized its capital, Pailingmiao. Apparently this was done with the bribe-bought co-operation of one of the last Celestials to wear the ancient Chinese pigtail, famed Prince Te. His Highness is the blandest foe of Soviet Russian influence, in Inner and Outer Mongolia. In effect the seizure of Pailingmiao, jabbed the Japanese spearhead 200 miles nearer to an ultimate clash with the Red Army of Joseph Stalin for the mastery of Eastern Asia...