Word: manchukuo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rumor, current in highest Japanese circles last week, was that on March 1 the puppet ruler of Manchukuo, Mr. Henry Pu-yi, will be proclaimed Emperor, will surround himself with a Court largely composed of Chinese who served him when as the babe Hsuan Tung he sat on the Dragon Throne at Peking...
...Five Year Plan. Such a conflict would be precipitated only by Japan, probably using the railroad situation as a pretext. An aggressive move of this sort would not be preceded by a formal declaration of war; Japan would merely enter Russia and seize land, as she did in the Manchukuo dispute...
...Soong is the only man who ever balanced China's budget (TIME, Jan. 2), the only Chinese Finance Minister who ever held his country's extravagant militarists in check. Unfortunately Soong the Financier tried to make himself a popular figure by clamoring for Chinese efforts to wrest Manchukuo back from Japan. Chiang the Conqueror (of Chinese) knew that against Japanese his forces could not for the present win. He also resented the encroachment into politics of Soong, the money man. Cross current of intrigue and personal gossip further estranged T. V. and Chiang. Last week Mr. Soong...
Ridden roughshod by Army and Navy leaders since the occupation of Manchukuo, Japan's political leaders have been casting desperately about for some means of regaining their lost power. Recently the two great political parties Seiyukai and Minseito-normally as friendly as cats and dogs-made overtures to each other and were working feverishly last week to achieve union and strength against the men of the sword...
Still riding high, War Minister Sadao Araki last week canceled previously announced plans to reduce the number of Japanese troops in Manchukuo to a "peace time basis." Instead, more troops will be sent, the excuse being that Soviet Russia continues to maintain the large forces she established behind her frontier when Japan occupied Manchukuo and seized most of the half-Soviet-owned Chinese Eastern Railway which serves the northern part of Manchukuo...