Word: manchukuo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wheat and agricultural produce of King Carol's large and fertile domains. Just to make things official, Aggrandizer Hitler also formally assumed a 25-year protectorate over Slovakia. To show that he had interests out side of Europe, the Mehrer signed a "most-favored-nation" commercial treaty with Manchukuo, Japan's Far Eastern satellite...
...week New York Times Correspondent Hallett Abend offered another and more sensational reason why there has not been more fighting. From Shanghai, Correspondent Abend cabled that military experts in the Far East had had their eyes on Japanese troop movements from the Chinese occupied zones northward toward the Siberian-Manchukuo border. So many soldiers have been withdrawn, said Mr. Abend, that the Canton area is now held by only 25,000 men, the huge Yangtze Valley and Central China districts by only...
MOSCOW--Fifteen Japanese and Manchukuo soldiers were killed or wounded in clashes with Soviet forces near Island 237 in the Argun River on Feb. 6 and 7, it was announced officially tonight...
Orestes Jones kept his real ambitions under his hat until the time struck, contenting himself with filling such small orders as six football linemen for a worthy university, a guaranteed victorious Olympic team for Manchukuo. The big bee in Orestes' bonnet was war, which, he was convinced, "like any other business, could be vastly improved by those planning to engage in it." His first big order was for 500,000 men to mop up a threatened Communist outbreak in the Netherlands East Indies. Unfortunately for Orestes, the job was too easy. His supercharged G. M. units, just nicely warmed...
...clothes and men's sports, took for her first victim her husband, Prince Fan Chulchab of Outer Mongolia, whose Soviet connections she promptly betrayed to Japanese officers in Dairen. She was credited with inducing Henry Pu-yi to become the Emperor Kang Teh of Manchukuo, with having fought alongside Japanese troops in their 1933 campaign in Jehol. After this campaign, in which she was supposed to have been wounded, she conferred an honor on herself, called herself the "Joan of Arc of Jehol...