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Word: manchukuo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fluffy-haired Paul Hymans as President of the Assembly. It must vote, he said, on the recommendations of the League Committee of 19 (TIME, Feb. 27), recommendations which include withdrawal of Japanese troops from territory they have seized and nonrecognition by League countries of Japan's puppet state, "Manchukuo." Before a vote was taken Chinese Chief Delegate Dr. W. W. Yen accepted the recommendations with gusto, heard Japan's Matsuoka reject them with fierce eloquence: ''Manchuria belongs to us by right! Read your history. We recovered it from Russia! We made it what it is today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Crushing Verdict | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

Later, after Kailu and Chaoyang had fallen, correspondents were summoned to the former Imperial Manchu Summer Palace at Chengteh, found Two-Gun Tang seated on a 200-year-old Ceremonial Throne. "The Japanese can have this province," cried Tang passionately, "when all the Chinese are dead! . . . Manchukuo is nothing but a big fake. No Chinese yet has voluntarily joined the Japanese. Even Pu Yi [in his childhood the last Emperor of China, today Regent of Manchukuo] would get out of his present job if he could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA-JAPAN: Two-Gun Tang | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

...Emperor's Private Ambassador." Overshadowing all else in Chinese minds last week was the appalling question whether Japan would confine herself to Jehol (which she terms a renegade province of her puppet state, Manchukuo) or would hurl her armed might upon Tientsin, Peiping and other key cities of China proper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: War of Jehol | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

...order thus to invade territory which even Japan calls "China" without quibbling would come from the Tokumei Zenken Taishi, the "Emperor's Private Ambassador" in Manchukuo, His Excellency General Nobuyoshi Muto, bland, august and grim. In a most ominous proclamation this week, the Tokumei Zenken Taishi declared: "Should the Chinese undertake operations against our troops [as Chinese had already done] the hostilities may inevitably spread to North China, responsibility for which must be borne by the Chinese authorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: War of Jehol | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

...Jehol are equally permissible. The "J" is pronounced either like R in ran or like the French J in jour. The "L" is silent in China proper, is sounded by Manchurians. According to the standard "Wade System" of rendering phonetics into English, Jehol is pronounced "Ruh-huh" and Manchukuo is pronounced "Mahndrowgwoh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: War of Jehol | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

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