Word: manchukuo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sept. 18, 1931. Japanese troops, without warning, marched into Mukden, went on to conquer the Chinese province of Manchuria, set up the puppet state of Manchukuo. The Japanese Navy bombarded Shanghai; its Army moved in to kill some 100,000 Chinese...
American Catholicism's 1,200 missionaries in the Far East include 183 in Japan, Korea and Manchukuo, some 600 in occupied China. None of these has been moved except on routine shifts in this last year of mounting tension. Catholic mission leaders in America expect them to remain where they are, take their chances, hope that little happens to them. The fact that the Vatican, world headquarters of Roman Catholicism, is geographically in the Axis may help them...
...stocks enough for about 15 months of all-out war. Normally consuming 28 million barrels a year, she can command from Manchukuo. Sakhalin, Formosa, and her own wells and synthetic productions only some 7 ½ million barrels...
...Japanese have held three fundamentalist Presbyterian missionaries incommunicado in Manchukuo since Oct. 22. Protests by the U.S. State Department have failed even to elicit the charge against the missionaries. Four days after the arrest at Harbin, the Japanese hustled the trio-Dr. and Mrs. Roy M. Byram, the Rev. Bruce Hunt-500 miles south to Antung, on the Korean border. Probable reason: to make them testify at the trial of the Korean Christians arrested for refusing to take part in State Shinto rites. Secondary reason: to frighten remaining U.S. missionaries out of Manchukuo...
After the Russians were whipped. Japan seized Korea with her victorious army and told the world that Korea wished to become her protectorate. Korea was made a puppet like Manchukuo. Korea appealed to the powers who had treaty obligations with her to redress her grievances. Mute was their response. It was the beginning of tacitly appeasing the subtle aggressor. Finally, Japan again by force annexed Korea in 1910 and gracefully announced that the Emperor of Korea made complete and permanent cession to the Emperor of Japan of all rights of sovereignty over Korea and the Emperor of Japan consented...