Word: manchukuo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most certainly our duty is clear," declared Baron Barnby, chairman of British industries' recent trade mission to Japan and Manchukuo. Also for intervention were two crusty British civil servants long accustomed to telling Orientals what is best-Baron Lamington, onetime Governor of Bombay, and the Earl Peel whilom Secretary of State for India. As cables flashed off their remarks to Tokyo, provoking sharp retorts (see p. 24), 'other peers rebutted with spirit...
...thwart the assassination of an especially honored guest of Japan's Divine Emperor bespectacled young Son-of-Heaven Hirohito With 15 days of such pomp as even the Orient has seldom seen, Japan was giving a $1,000,000 coming-out party for her shy puppet Emperor of Manchukuo His Majesty Kang...
...Good luck is already assured," radioed Captain Inouye from the Hiyei. "We have sighted the propitious omen of two Japanese cranes, apparently emigrating to Manchukuo...
...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...
Japanese sweetness and light glinted in Southwest China this month in the optimistic person of General Kenji Doihara, bribe-brandishing chief of the Japanese Army spy service in 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...