Word: manchukuo
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Wheel-Shaped City. In Changchun itself-the modern, wheel-shaped city of green trees and creamy buildings which the Japs built as a capital for puppet Manchukuo-the sturdy Manchu citizenry were doing their best to remain calm. During the months of cowboy-&-Indian type warfare around Changchun, civilians could (and many did) pile on to trains heading south toward Peiping. But, with the rails cut, civilians were stuck...
...continued his testimony about his trials as No. 1 Japanese puppet (TIME, Aug. 19). In 1940, he reported, Emperor Hirohito had invited him to Tokyo, feted him, presented him with two gifts-a mirror and a sword (both sacred Shinto symbols),* and then sent him home to Shinto-ize Manchukuo. Said Pu-yi, who previously testified that the Japanese had murdered his wife: "It was my greatest humiliation...
...name: "Exhibit Public Greatness." In the days when he was an honest man, Chen had never been more than a high-ranking functionary. Now he qualified as the great traitor only because Wang Ching-wei was dead and the Russians held Puppet Emperor Henry Pu-yi of Manchukuo...
...Japanese withdrew in China, puppets tumbled right & left. One of them was Henry Pu Yi, ex-Emperor of the ex-state of Manchukuo; he was a Russian prisoner. Another was Inner Mongolia's roly-poly Prince Teh (full name Teh-mu-chu-keh-lung-lu-pu), whose arid realm is the shortest international high way between Soviet Siberia and Peking...
Henry Pu Yi, just captured by the Russians, had further cause for sadness. The ex-Manchukuo puppet's collection of dolls was all smashed up by a bunch of Jap bullies who looted his palace, the Moscow radio reported...