Word: manchukuo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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London & Paris. Did seamy-featured Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania negotiate in London with Prime Minister MacDonald and later in Paris with Premier Herriot a quid pro quo arrangement last week, whereby Britain and France will join the U. S. in refusing to recognize Manchukuo, in return for which the U. S. will join them in opposing Germany's demand for arms equality...
Japanese newspapers scare-headed a "Reed Conspiracy," pointing to the nonrecognition of Manchukuo by France and Britain and to an appeal which President Hoover made last week urging Germany to re-enter the Geneva Armaments Conference (TIME, Sept. 26). When Secretary Stimson told United Press that he was "unaware" of Senator Reed's conversations in London and Paris the vocal comment of many a top-hatted, frock-coated European statesman...
Spain's forthright Don Salvador de Madariaga created a sensation in the pussyfooting Council by his description of the creation of Manchukuo. "which I will call quite plainly invasion of Manchuria!" Playing safe, the Council then delayed discussion of the Lytton Report to Nov. 14, which Japan's representative seemed to consider only a partial victory...
...refused extend credit. Protest putting me off in Deming. Population one-twentieth person and one cholla per square mile, area 20 square miles Barely subsisting diet enchiladas, but hope reach Cambridge in time to say to the regular dopesters, Hageman and I'll Buffalo you. Eluded Chinese secret service Manchukuo. Bandits not in Japanese Employment; is no such thing. Disregard protests Pacific Steamship Company I impersonated Gibbons for free return voyage; he isn't patch on me. Sorry Roosevelt farm relief speech caused confusion, I wrote first half. Ejected from his special at Deming, governor a poker player all right...
...Liberal Manchester Guardian as twin pillars of upright journalism, were puzzled, pained. In Japan schoolchildren clutching Rising Sun flags paraded by the thousand through Tokyo, celebrating the Treaty of Changchun. "Ex Oriente Lux!" headlined Tokyo's erudite & patriotic Kokumin Shimbun. "Light comes from the East! Japan and Manchukuo have become the centre of the world with Japan standing as the Guide to Civilization. . . . What care we for the jealousy and oppression of the Western Powers? Whatever the persecution to be suffered and the sacrifices demanded, we must surmount all obstacles...