Word: manchukuo
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Disregarding a confused reporter who kept calling him "Mr. Manchukuo," Yosuke Matsuoka continued...
Officially Yosuke Matsuoka was on his way back to Japan to report to his government and resume his seat in the Diet. Unofficially he was in the U. S. to explain Japan's position on Manchukuo and the League. For that he is well equipped. Taken to Oregon at the age of 12 he lived there until after his graduation from the State University. He speaks English with only the faintest accent, thoroughly understands U. S. psychology, as he showed at the very outset of his interview...
...object to the designation 'puppet state' for Manchukuo. That was one of the errors of the Lytton Report. There is a certain analogy between the Japanese-Manchukuo relationship and the United States-Cuba relationship, but there is also this difference: Japan did not first conquer Manchukuo and then give it virtual independence. Manchukuo sprang into being as an independent state. As such it is not a protectorate, just a friendly nation. . . . Your country has not made the sacrifices in developing its neighbors that Japan has made in Manchuria. I question whether the United States would permit the territory...
Japanese courage and efficiency plus Chinese treachery and bungling made possible last week an epic and amazing relay race of conquest up the snow-swept mountains of Jehol and on to the Great Wall itself, upon which jubilant Japanese hoisted the flag of their puppet state Manchukuo...
...another Japanese brigade, fresh and boiling with zeal, pressed on with the offensive, thus keeping the Chinese in ceaseless headlong flight. Even the Japanese General Staff was amazed by the utter crumpling of Jehol's defense as Chinese "generals" either deserted their troops and fled or broke out Manchukuo flags to welcome the invaders...