Word: manchukuo
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...illegal tax levies" since he became Finance Minister. As the brothers-in-law got busy, their cruiser anchoring in the safe middle of the river off Kuling, they were joined by the Chinese Ambassador to Japan. General Chiang Tso-pin, and the former Chinese satrap of what is now Manchukuo. the ''Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang. For months the Chinese statesmen who thus met last week have been playing Japan's game. Each fears sudden Death at the hands of some patriotic Chinese, and the purpose of their conference was simply to decide whether there is really...
...that the present Japanese Emperor is said to have a homely knowledge of biology, remarked that His Majesty might have achieved more as a scientist than he has as an Emperor. Mentioning that Emperor Hirohito of Japan has little real power, New Life then mentioned Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo as "the puppet of a puppet...
Japanese workers benefited by the occupation of Manchukuo?" "The only ones who have benefited," said Mr. Kato, "are those in the munitions factories. For others conditions have been very bad. Generally speaking, since the Manchurian invasion, the gulf between prices and wages in Japan has been considerably increased, and as a result the workers have suffered...
...have been suppressed. Chinese and Japanese censorship remained ironclad. Japanese bombing planes thundered menacingly over Peiping. In Tientsin with feverish activity Japanese architects and landscape gardeners started doing over a onetime Imperial residence as if it might soon be occupied by Japan's puppet Emperor Rang Te of Manchukuo, the onetime authentic Emperor Hsuan Tung...
With China more than ever prostrated by her white-man-made silver crisis, Japanese Army commanders in Manchukuo and at Boxer Protocol garrisons in North China proceeded to make impossible demands on the Chinese Government, demands the mere granting of which would mean the abdication of the Chinese Government in North China...