Word: manchukuo
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...cigaret paper selling openly in Peiping for less than the Chinese duty which should have been collected on them, but the Chinese state railways were each day running a "smugglers" freight car" coupled to the morning passenger train which entered North China from the Japanese puppet Empire of Manchukuo. If this was not the greatest possible humiliation fora Chinese Government claiming to be sovereign, the climax was capped when Japan forced Chinese officials to take away the revolvers of their own customs guards and the Japanese Navy announced that any interference by a Chinese revenue cutter with a Japanese...
...Communists; Japan must be permitted to advise, direct and furnish China with whatever capital she is permitted to raise and expend in schemes of Chinese economic development; and officials of the Chinese Government must submit to having at their elbows Japanese advisers like those in the puppet Empire of Manchukuo. This week Ambassador Kawagoe and Foreign Minister Chang were willing to admit publicly at Nanking that they had reached no agreement of importance and at Tokyo last week Japanese Big Business was in panic. The tycoons of the Empire do not want, just now, the crushing additional tax burden...
Finally Leon Blum reaffirmed those principles which Benito Mussolini, with his conquest of Ethiopia, and Japan, with her seizure of Manchukuo, have tried to make seem old-fashioned and even silly. "French Peace supposes for all nations Liberty for self-determination!" cried Orator Blum. "It supposes Equality of right between States, big or little, as between individuals. It supposes Fraternity, that is to say, progressive elimination of war, solidarity against an aggressor and material and moral disarmament...
Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, the Argentine recalled in rosy terms the "Stimson Doctrine" of simply not recognizing that Japan has made a great conquest in China and dominates Manchukuo (TIME, March 28, 1932). According to Señor Cantilo this Stimson Doctrine could well be applied today not only to Manchukuo but also to Ethiopia -its great attraction to harassed statesmen being that it enables them to give an imposing name to doing nothing and omitting year after year to make up their minds...
...treaty of mutual assistance signed between Soviet Russia and an Asiatic nation early this spring was designed to check Japanese aggression in (1 Manchukuo, 2 Chinese Turkestan, 3 Indo-China, 4 Outer Mongolia, 5 Tibet...