Word: manchukuo
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Ridden roughshod by Army and Navy leaders since the occupation of Manchukuo, Japan's political leaders have been casting desperately about for some means of regaining their lost power. Recently the two great political parties Seiyukai and Minseito-normally as friendly as cats and dogs-made overtures to each other and were working feverishly last week to achieve union and strength against the men of the sword...
...times as great as the sum they gave last year "for direct unemployment relief" after the assassination of Dr. Dan. To please the Army, the House of Mitsui and their competitors the House of Mitsubishi also subscribed a "loan" of 20,000,000 yen to the puppet Government of Manchukuo. Even such cooperation, swaggering Japanese officers declare, is "less than the duty of such profiteers...
Until last week no Great Power had troubled to attack the puppet "Regency" of hollow-eyed Henry Pu Yi over what Japan calls the new state of Manchukuo...
Regent Henry has been free to assume that President Roosevelt would recognize Manchukuo sooner or later as no worse than Bolshevikland. Secretary of State Cordell Hull has given no sign that he favored his Republican predecessor's "Stimson Doctrine" of unyielding nonrecognition of Manchukuo. Abruptly last week President Roosevelt moved to pin on Manchukuo an odium worse than any attaching to Russia. The President sent the State Department's assistant chief of Far Eastern Affairs, Stuart Fuller, to read a 1,700-word U. S. protest anent Manchukuo to the League of Nations' Opium Commission in Geneva...
...gesture." Nothing, of course, is further from the Kremlin's mind than to leave the Vladivostok salient wholly unprotected, as Molotov said in so many words, discarding diplomatic disguise. It is perfectly true that the Soviet garrisons and the lower territory itself will be lost instantly when war begins: Manchukuo is so placed that the Japanese will have no trouble whatever in splitting the Maritime provinces off from the rest of Russia. The Trans-Siberian line could be cut at a dozen spots, thus severing Vladivostok from her base of supplies. All this the Soviet Union knows perfectly well...