Word: manchukuo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disregarding a confused reporter who kept calling him "Mr. Manchukuo," Yosuke Matsuoka continued...
Officially Yosuke Matsuoka was on his way back to Japan to report to his government and resume his seat in the Diet. Unofficially he was in the U. S. to explain Japan's position on Manchukuo and the League. For that he is well equipped. Taken to Oregon at the age of 12 he lived there until after his graduation from the State University. He speaks English with only the faintest accent, thoroughly understands U. S. psychology, as he showed at the very outset of his interview...
Japanese courage and efficiency plus Chinese treachery and bungling made possible last week an epic and amazing relay race of conquest up the snow-swept mountains of Jehol and on to the Great Wall itself, upon which jubilant Japanese hoisted the flag of their puppet state Manchukuo...
...another Japanese brigade, fresh and boiling with zeal, pressed on with the offensive, thus keeping the Chinese in ceaseless headlong flight. Even the Japanese General Staff was amazed by the utter crumpling of Jehol's defense as Chinese "generals" either deserted their troops and fled or broke out Manchukuo flags to welcome the invaders...
Last week's fighting in Jehol meant only hindrance to Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews, famed digger of fossils in Mongolia. Dr. Andrews recognized the State of Manchukuo last autumn, arranged with the Regency to continue his Mongolian diggings. As soon as Japan pacifies the region, he will dart in with Dodge cars, camels and naturalists. He has closed the Peking headquarters from which he led five expeditions between 1921 and 1930 at a cost...