Word: manchukuo
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Subtle Doihara may or may not have provoked the "incident" at Mukden (TIME, Sept. 28, 1931) which enabled Japan to set up Manchukuo as a puppet state. He was chief of the Japanese Army Secret Service in Mukden at the time- the service which makes incidents. Few months later Doihara was in Harbin before those unfortunate outbreaks of "banditry" which caused Japan to take that strategic city on the Chinese Eastern Railway (TIME, Feb. 22, 1932). Later it was perhaps Doihara who fomented enough "unrest" in Tientsin to excuse the bringing in of Japanese troops who imposed the humiliating Tangku...
...himself "Henri Waung." In 1903 he graduated from Tokyo Law College and attached himself to Dr. Sun. In 1909 he rushed to Peking for a bold effort to assassinate Prince Regent Chun, father of the Boy-Emperor who was then China's Son-of-Heaven, now reigns as Manchukuo's puppet Emperor...
...Chinese freighter's cargo was chiefly coal, she could not steam to California without taking on food. In almost any port on the China coast she would be recognized. Shrewd Captain Taudien decided to put her in at the Japanese port of Dairen on the nether tip of Manchukuo. Clumsy, he ran her aground...
Geneva--League officials fear Italy intends to seize control of Abyssinia in new "Manchukuo" drive...
...matter how remote the danger of war, Japanese Deputies must vote nearly half of the Empire's revenue to the fighting services, now and for an indefinite period hereafter. Pounding with his small fist, War Minister Hayashi cried: "The Army has no intention of stopping now in Manchukuo!" Pounding with his large fist, Navy Minister Osumi boomed: "We have no intention of embarking on a naval race, but if negotiations fail we have a policy! . . The whole Japanese nation must make up its mind to cope with the situation, even if we are reduced to eating rice gruel...