Word: manchukuo
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...Asia? Japanese Premier Prince Fuminaro Konoye journeyed to the Empire's national shrines and prayed last week for "restoration of Peace." In a loquacious interview with Japanese correspondents he envisioned peace under a sort of United States of Asia, a lineup of Japan, China and Manchukuo v. the West. Meanwhile General Kazushige Ugaki, one of Japan's longtime Privy Councilors, mentioned prominently last spring as candidate for Premier, attempted to meet squarely the incredulity with which white men greet Japanese claims to be fighting China so that the two countries can become firm friends, even allies...
...unprecedented" to indulge .in such a hocus-pocus of exchanging non-diplomatic agents. "I do not know of any exact precedents for this situation," replied the Prime Minister, but afterward the Foreign Office's adept precedent-finders found two. There are "British agents" today in Ethiopia and in Manchukuo, they pointed out, and their presence has not constituted recognition by His Majesty's Government of either the empire in Ethiopia or the empire in Manchukuo...
...plane to Moscow, and Nanking last week hoped for "action" from the Soviet Union, feared the U. S. might hurl only words. Japanese were so scared lest the Red Army strike that Tokyo spokesmen announced 200,000 of Japan's "best" troops have been sent to man the Manchukuo-Soviet frontier, claimed that the Japanese troops thus far sent to China are not by any means the flower of the Mikado's legions, kept whistling loudly thus to keep up the Japanese people's courage...
...These figures include Manchuria, which the Great Powers still consider part of China under the "Stimson Doctrine/' although Japan considers it her puppet empire of Manchukuo...
...Japan's 700 Friends talked to reporters before the press agent of the conference, nervous John Reich of the Friends Service Committee, could stop them. Said Quaker Seiju Hirakawa: "The present invasion of China by Japan is motivated by a militaristic clique which is trying to protect the Manchukuo experiment ... a colossal failure. Ninety per cent of Japan is against the present undeclared war. . . ." Said Ryumei Yamano: ''In Japan we have no freedom of speech...