Word: manchukuo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lytton Report denounced Japan for seizing Manchuria and branded "Manchukuo" as a mere name coined by Japan to strengthen her pretense that Manchuria spontaneously revolted from China. It was War Minister Araki who brushed aside the Lytton Report as "an interesting travelogue." It became just that in Geneva last week as League statesmen drafted a resolution under which the League Assembly would virtually abandon any attempt to enforce the Lytton findings, thus bowing to "The Way of the Perfect Emperor"-i. e. to Japanese threats of withdrawal from the League...
...winter their victory had two obvious advantages: 1) If Japan decides to strike at Peiping and Tientsin she holds the Thermopylae through which her Army must pass; 2) if, which is more immediately likely, Japan decides to seize Jehol Province just outside the Great Wall and add it to Manchukuo, her puppet state. Japanese control of Shanhaikwan will block any effective steps which Chinese might try to take to protect Jehol...
...cost of conquering Manchuria, turning it into "Independent Manchukuo," and the constantly increasing cost of policing Japan's puppet state have brought the Empire to a fiscal brink. Next year's budget is to balance at the largest figure in the history of Japan-the fantastic sum of 2,239,000,000 yen ($1,119,500,000 at par, $470,019,000 at current exchange). So much money cannot be raised by taxation. It is to be raised by what will amount to forced internal loans with consequent inflation and further depreciation of the yen. Clearly the only...
...Government: 1) to "encourage and intensify" the Chinese boycott of Japanese goods?this boycott having furnished the specific excuse cited by Japan for her bombardment of Shanghai (TIME, Feb. 1); 2) to send money and munitions to the Chinese bandits and volunteers who continue to harass Japanese forces in Manchukuo; 3) to mass large Chinese forces near the frontier of Manchukuo, ready to attack at a propitious moment and recover "the four eastern provinces of China...
...pass a sponge over the rest.' That is to say. 'Provided I can receive a dividend this year, never mind about the capital.' To this madness, Spain desires to say 'No!' The League Covenant will perish if we permit Chinese Manchuria to become Japanese Manchukuo...