Word: manchukuo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against the coronation of Japan's Manchu puppet as Emperor of Manchukuo was its onetime ruler the Chinese "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang...
Fresh from China by way of the U. S. Navy Medical Corps this month came a vivid surgeon's-eye view of heroic Chinese resistance to the Japanese onslaught which swept down from Manchukuo, entered "China proper" through the Great Wall and stopped just short of Peiping (TIME, May 29, et ante}. Excerpts from the report* of Lieut.-Commander Morton D. Willcutts, M. D., the U. S. Navy's observer at Peiping Base Hospital: "The North China soldier rates a much higher military mark than his reverses of the past few months might indicate. . . . Only those wounded...
Back in Shanghai from Europe, to which he retired after Japan ousted him from what is now Manchukuo (TIME, March 20) Young Chang last week cried, "I cannot praise too highly Mussolini and Hitler. What men! I am only a small man now. The Chinese people will not like this cor onation. They have never liked the idea of a crowned ruler since the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty. Had my own father. Marshal Chang Tso-lin, been crowned I should have wanted to kill...
Famed "Old Marshal" Chang began life as a coolie, made himself the uncrowned War Lord of what is now Manchukuo, had himself scores of wives, reveled in opium, drank hot tigers' blood in the belief that it kept his vitals active, played Japan's game for years and when he ceased to do so was dynamited in his private railway car (TIME, June...
...last week for Manchu robes and bits of court regalia which they had sold for next to nothing after "Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang drove the boy Emperor out of Peiping's Imperial Palace. With hopes high over 100 kinsmen of the Manchu House left Peiping for Manchukuo, led by Puppet Henry's Cousin Prince Kung...