Word: manchukuo
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...instead of shooting first. And, while all men of good will deplored the dismemberment of central Europe's one island of democracy and were saddened for the painful uprooting of the minorities which will leave the ceded territories, realists took heart from one fact. Unlike the rapes of Manchukuo and Ethiopia, the Czechoslovak rape had at least set a precedent, which might flower into a great influence for peace, for aggressors being persuaded to follow legal-diplomatic forms...
...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...