Word: manchukuo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only nation on the American continent which recognizes Japan's four-year-old puppet state of Manchukuo is tiny, coffee-producing El Salvador. Last week, in belated appreciation of El Salvador's gesture, made in March 1934 owl-eyed, thick-lipped Manchukuoan Emperor Kang Teh was graciously pleased to decorate El Salvador's Strong Man, swart, curly-haired President General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez. Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Araujo and the Salvadorean Consul General in Tokyo, León Siguenza...
Little does it matter to spurned Manchukuo that many a chancellery believes that El Salvador first recognized the puppet state by mistake. The story goes that on the day that Henry Pu Yi became Emperor Kang Teh, his Minister of Foreign Relations sent an announcement to all foreign offices. Since the League of Nations, to which El Salvador then belonged, had passed a resolution binding all League members to nonrecognition, the foreign offices of these nations ignored the announcement. But in El Salvador a sleepy under secretary in the Foreign Ministry, assuming that diplomatic courtesy demanded a reply, answered with...
...good defense: he had gained nothing by Osugi's death; his was a purely patriotic murder. He was given only seven years and he was out in a little more than two. When the Japanese Army entered Manchuria and set up the so-called state of Manchukuo, Amakasu went over to help occupy, was presently active in Manchukuo's "General Affairs Bureau." Naturally he was appointed vice-chairman of a Manchukuoan Good Will and Economic Mission of 26 members which recently set out for a tour of Italy, the Vatican City, Germany, Rightist Spain, El Salvador, nations which...
...Soya Strait, just above the northernmost island of Japan, the Soviet provision ship Refrigerator No, 1 was halted by the Japanese, her captain and crew thrown into jail. Japanese authorities questioned their Red captives about the number and equipment of Soviet armed forces facing Manchukuo. To force answers they used the dread Oriental bastinado, beat the soles of the Reds with thin strips of bamboo. On top of this ancient torture, a favorite in China for thousands of years, the Japanese produced electric wires, sparked and shocked the Russians' bleeding soles...
Japan had no claims north of the Tumen until she took over Manchukuo six years ago. The boundary of Manchukuo joins the Tumen somewhere near Changkufeng Hill and recently the Japanese decided that the hill would be nice to hold. The Manchukuoan border was easy to argue about, since it was fixed by the Sino-Russian treaty of 1886 of which Russia holds the only known copy (China's copy was unaccountably lost). So fortnight ago the Japanese seized the hill. The Russians fought back and all last week Japanese communiqués were filled with accounts...