Word: manchukuo
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More Japanese were killed by Chinese weather than by Chinese bullets during the cocky little Empire's sub-zero conquest of Manchukuo (TIME, Jan. 4, 1932). Last week in Finland arrived the Japanese General Staff's noncommittal Captain Nishimura. "I shall stay here two years to study conditions," said he, shivering...
...thing is to ease their hysteria, if only for a few hours, and get them away from hysterical friends. We do this in simple little establishments called Wait-a-Bits. These we have established in both Japan and Chosen (Korea) and soon we will have Wait-a-Bits in Manchukuo...
...Jumped to the conclusion that Great Britain may soon recognize Japan's puppet Empire of Manchukuo when London's Conservative Press received with acclaim last week a" rabidly pro-Manchukuo report of 12,000 words turned in by the British trade mission to Manchukuo under Wool Tycoon Lord Barnby. Reputedly the Barnby commissioners bagged $40,000,000 worth of Japanese orders for steel alone. Cried the Tory Morning Post: "Manchukuo is a permanent fact to which the world must accommodate itself, whether it likes it or not. No useful purpose is to be served by preserving the diplomatic...
Busy preserving this fiction last week were a U. S. and a British consul. In Hsinking, raw boomtown capital of the puppet Empire, they called upon Manchukuoan officials presumably to protest against Manchukuo's confiscatory oil monopoly (TIME, Nov. 5), treated them as persons, not as officials of unrecognized Manchukuo...
...Hsinking, fast-booming capital of Japan's puppet Empire of Manchukuo, the official Manchukuo News Agency dispatched last week this hot wire concerning hollow-eyed Emperor Kang...