Word: manchukuo
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...Marshal's son & heir, Chang Hsueh-liang, "The Young Marshal," blamed the Japanese for his father's somewhat mysterious assassination, and allied himself with Chiang. Six years ago the Japanese drove The Young Marshal out of Manchuria and reorganized it as their puppet state Manchukuo, but the rest of China had been brought under the flag of the Nanking Government, that is, of Generalissimo Chiang (TIME...
...motor cars or on horses so shockingly thin and ill-cared for as to make many a spectator gasp. Well-fed, clean-uniformed Japanese infantry came next, the middle-aged troops of the Son of Heaven who are invading China while his better, hardier and younger soldiers guard Manchukuo against Soviet Russia. After the infantry came machine guns, then mountain guns dismantled and packed on skinny horses, finally rumbling heavy artillery, munitions wagons and field artillery corps-the whole Victory Parade of such length that it took half-an-hour to pass a given point...
...Australians, fresh from debates in Japan, Manchukuo, the Philipines, Canada, and the Universities of Stanford, California, Washington, Columbia, and Chicago, intend to stay here several days after the contest...
...report which was submitted by Oakes Ames '98, director of the Museum, lists a large collection of fossil plants from Japan and Manchukuo as one of the major acquisitions of the year...
Meanwhile, Satevepost readers were advised last week by famed Newsbooker John Gunther to regard Manchukuo as "Contemporary Political Fiction No. i" and Ethiopia as C. P. F. No. 2. "Ethiopia has about as much political reality today as Carthage-which the Italians also destroyed," wrote Mr. Gunther. "The 'Emperor' Haile Selassie is about as concrete a living political force today as Beowulf or General Grant. Yet the Ethiopians still send delegations to Geneva, the 'country' is considered a member of the League of Nations, and the great powers-except Italy, which seized it- appear still...