Word: manchukuo
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...have done a real service to reproduce portions of the warning from the "Committee of One Million" against admission of Communist China to the U.N. [June 10]. Would the Foreign Policy Association have asked in 1938: How long can the U.S. effectively attempt to bar the admission of Manchukuo to the League of Nations? Would Harper's, Atlantic and the New Republic have insisted on doing business with Hitler, Tojo and Mussolini in the name of coexistence with Fascism? Liberals would have us adopt policies toward de facto Communist states which they vehemently opposed when applied to de facto...
When Japan set out a generation ago to bribe and bayonet its way to domination over what Tokyo's propagandists called the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," an ambitious civil servant named Nobusuke Kishi became an economic administrator in Manchukuo, then Minister of Commerce and Industry in the Tojo Cabinet, and finally wound up in jail for three years after World War II as a war-criminal suspect. He emerged convinced that though the means had been inept, the aim remained the only solution of Japan's pressing economic problems...
Died. Jiro Minami, 81, onetime hard-drinking, samurai-style Japanese army general (at 60 he was a good fencer, an expert with the broadsword), war minister in 1931, when the Japanese army marched into Manchuria, ambassador and commander-in-chief in Manchukuo 1934-36, tyrannical governor general of Korea 1936-42; of uremic poisoning; in Kamakura, Japan. In 1945, Minami was ordered arrested by General MacArthur with ten other class A war criminals; he was paroled last year from Tokyo's Sugamo Prison because of ill health...
Died. Shigeo Odachi, 63, iron-fisted director of the General Affairs Bureau in Japan's puppet Manchukuo government, wartime mayor of Singapore, Home Minister (1944), member of the Diet since 1953; of cancer; in Tokyo...
...sent him through college and law school. Two years after graduation he was a judge. The same year (1929) he was baptized a Christian after six years of persuasion by Methodist Missionary Samuel Wainwright and a Japanese Presbyterian. While Muto was helping to run the conquered Chinese territory of Manchukuo, he served as elder in a church there, and sometimes he worried about the difference between his two jobs. "We [Japanese] Christians made an excuse for the war," Muto explains. "We felt we had our duties as citizens. We told ourselves that it was a moral war to save colored...