Word: manchukuo
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Soviet newspaper readers last week were bug-eyed at a trial in Manchukuo which seemed to them as deliberate a miscarriage of justice as the Moscow Old Bolsheviks Trials must have seemed to Manchukuoan Emperor Kang Te, Japan's bland puppet. To Red Russians there is nowhere a more detestable body of men than the "White Guards" in Manchukuo, a group of ex-Tsarist soldiers, aristocrats and riff-raff who live just outside the Soviet Union border, expecting momentarily and scheming year after year for "the collapse of Bolshevism...
...jail at Harbin recently contained six White Guards, convicted of having murdered a pro-Soviet Jewish orchestra conductor named Simon Kaspe. The Manchukuo Supreme Court presently reviewed their case and, according to the Moscow Pravda's passionate account last week, had before it the evidence of Harbin Police Chief Yeguchi who testified: "These men are Russian patriots preparing a revolt on Soviet territory." Even the prosecutor, according to Pravda, tacitly admitted that "the crime had a political background...
...Diet. New Japanese Premier General Hayashi is known and hated throughout China as "The Border Crosser." Reason: in 1931 his troops were the first Japanese unit to cross the border from Korea, invading Chinese Manchuria, the larger part of which Japan has now turned into her puppet Empire of Manchukuo...
Morally this was a Chinese crisis. Historically, the fate of Eastern Asia might turn on who went Red and who did not. Geographically, there was interposed between China's migratory Red State and Soviet territory in Siberia and Outer Mongolia last week: 1) Japanese-dominated Manchukuo; 2) Japan's sphere of influence in North China; 3) the nomadic Mongols under famed Prince Te who openly exacts regular bribes from both Nanking and Tokyo (TIME, March 23 et ante), but seems in the depths of his complex character to be anti-Red. Just over the Soviet frontier...
...Minister General Count Juichi Terauchi. On the first day of the session last week Foreign Minister Arita had to face critics of his frankly anti-Communist foreign policy. He stoutly denied he was interested in joining Japan to the Fascist group in Europe, said he wanted only to protect Manchukuo from Communist penetration. At these words, venerable Kunimatsu Hamada, a leader of the Seiyukai (minority party), rose to his feet, hurled with tacit approval of the majority party (the Minseito) furious accusations that the Army leaders aim at Fascism, that the Cabinet are "mere Army puppets!" To retort, up jumped...