Word: manchukuo
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...will get paralyzed currency exchanges going again. Last week the currency situation was such a desperate muddle that a few days after the native dollar was quoted at 330 per $100 U. S. it was being quoted at 450-a catastrophic fall. Japan's puppet Chinese regimes in Manchukuo, Peking and Nanking will now cooperate in striving to make Japanese-controlled China's present economic chaos a trifle less chaotic, but the Japanese efforts will probably meet smart sabotage from Hankow's T. V. Soong, "China's Smartest Banker...
Died. Sir Reginald Fleming Johnson, 63, onetime British Commissioner of Weihaiwei, China, tutor and counselor to the deposed Boy Emperor Henry Pu Yi (now Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo); in Edinburgh, Scotland. Sir Reginald westernized his Manchu charge-watched Pu Yi cut off his pigtail, gave him the Christian name Henry, had his eyes treated by an American ophthalmologist despite the Dowager Empress' threat to give herself an overdose of opium if her son used spectacles...
...centre. I know Mr. Eden does not share this view! Stalin does and openly admits it." (See p. 17.) The Chancellor, having thus pinched the sorest point he could find, devoted a conciliatory part of his speech to announcing that: 1) Germany extends diplomatic recognition to the Empire of Manchukuo and assures Japan that the Fatherland wants no territory in Eastern Asia; 2) Germany has no territorial designs upon France or Spain and is "proud" of the 1934 pact by which Germany and Poland continue to respect each other's rights and interests, "even in Danzig...
...brought back one thing he had not expected when he set out with his wife for Tokyo eight months ago-the story of a war. Arriving in Japan just in time for the excitement, Bill McGovern lost no time in becoming embroiled in it. He went first to Manchukuo, and while he was being toasted in champagne by Japanese officials in Hsinking, his wife-was arrested snapping pictures in the streets...
...world via Moscow. What were said to be the "mild peace terms" being offered by Dr. Trautmann were then released at Tokyo. Japan asks China to pay the cost of the war; she asks the Chinese Government to repudiate Communism and accept Japanese advisers; China is then to recognize Manchukuo and collaborate economically with Japan in joint air and rail services and other projects. Latest reports were that Chiang had twice refused the Japanese proposals, but that Trautmann was going to call with them again...