Word: manchukuo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold & silver Medallion of the Rising Sun (with 31 rays) and the Imperial Paulownia Blossom, an affair of precious cloisonné. That was easy. Everything was easy in Tokyo last week for slightly rheumatic Guest Hsieh Kai-shih, snuff-taking Foreign Minister of Japan's new puppet state Manchukuo...
With a name that sounds like a sneeze, Hsieh Kai-shih (pronounced sheh ky-shee) set gloriously out from Manchukuo's capital fortnight ago, bedight in brand new robes of Chinese silk (TIME, Oct. 24). Hours before his train was due in Tokyo Japanese schoolmarms excused little boys and girls from classes, washed the children's hands, stuck a clean Japanese flag into each chubby fist and let the moppets off in droves to shriek "Banzai! May you live 10,000 years...
Unfortunately for this idyllic presentation of Japan's puppet state, savage events suddenly began to pop all over Manchukuo last week. One of the most outrageous occurred in Changchun, a few blocks from berobed Minister Hsieh. shortly before he left the Capital...
Changchun Tomahawking. Dining heavily in the Yueh Hai Chung, Changchun's best Chinese hotel, and guarded by Japanese police, sat wealthy Li Yih-sun, smartest political wire-puller in Manchukuo. famed for pulling Heilungkiang Province out from under Governor Chen Shieh-yuan who was ''kicked upstairs" to the rank of Privy Councilor...
Murders & Lynching. Meanwhile at Harbin, chief city of northern Manchukuo, four Chinese kidnappers pounced in broad daylight on the three children of C. T. Woodruff, chief accountant for British-American Tobacco Co. Ltd. in Harbin...