Word: manchukuo
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Since the "magistrates" of rural China are its rulers, General Shang, as the representative of Nanking, had agreed, in effect, to put a fat part in North China under men who are as much the puppets of Japan as is the so-called Emperor of so-called Manchukuo. Within 48 hours "The Deal" was followed by the shooting of Premier Wang...
When news reached Moscow that Manchukuo troops under Japanese officers had just attacked the Soviet frontier and killed several Red Army guards, the Soviet Press jittered anew against England. Russians read bug-eyed that the Greek Republic has been friendly to Dictator Mussolini, that last week's coup to restore George II is a cunning move by the Government of his kinsman George V to alienate Greek friendship from Italy...
...fence and to get him off became the surprising ambition last week of Mr. Hull's predecessor, Republican onetime Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. Lawyer Stimson's well-meant "Stimson Doctrine," which persuaded virtually all nations not to recognize Japan's puppet state of Manchukuo (TIME, March 7, 1932), led the Great Powers down the deadest dead-end street of latter day diplomacy and in that street they are still stalled. Last week ingenious Statesman Stimson, in an open letter to the Press, clarioned: "All the elements for moral leadership for this crisis...
...with the Japanese Ambassador while Chinese troops were being mowed down by Japanese machine guns in North China (TIME, June 24). To their credit the Chinese Government have the magnificent negative achievement that they have not yet been forced to extend official diplomatic recognition to the puppet Empire of Manchukuo, carved by Japan out of part of North China beyond the Great Wall...
Piece of Pork. This Japanese Army pronouncement had the authentic ring of those which preceded Japan's invasion of Manchuria and setting up of the puppet Empire of Manchukuo. Today the Nanking Government is already so pliant toward Japan that further acquiescence is well nigh impossible if the Government is to remain in any sense Chinese. Immediately ahead and prior to a Japanese armed advance seemed to lie a period of setting more and more venal Chinese upon North China's seats of local power. Of these wretched creatures Japan's favorite last week was the former...