Word: manchuriaâ
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...Japanese Army circles there was threatening War talk, based on reports that Russia had massed 70,000 Red Army soldiers near Vladivostok and more along her Manchurian frontier. Therefore more Japanese troops must be rushed into Manchuria???but how was the civilian Cabinet of Premier Ki Inukai to pay the cost? Japanese business has seldom been so bad. Silk, that leading Japanese export, slumped to a new low price last week. There remained only one more practicable move: "controlled inflation...
China's international boycott was what tiny Japanese delegate Kenkichi Yoshi-zawa (who puffs huge cigars) had in mind when he told the League Council in Geneva last week that Japan demands?as her chief condition for withdrawing Japanese troops from Manchuria???that China's Government actively combat all Anti-Japanese demonstrations by Chinese (see p. 16). Shot back Chinese Delegate Dr. Alfred Sze in the general direction of Mr. Yoshizawa's aromatic stogie...
Famed as a man of peace because he forced Japanese ratification last year of the London Naval Treaty despite terrific opposition, Baron Shidehara kept the cables to Washington busy last week, finally obtained from Secretary Stimson what amounted to a carte blanche for the Japanese activities in Manchuria???activities which the Chinese Government denounced in their cables to Washington last week as "free acts of war . . . still being committed by Japanese troops...
Traveling with a suite which included his Venerable Mother, three of his numerous wives, half a dozen of his staff members and his suites, Marshal Chang steamed over to Dairen. Manchuria???his usual jumping off place for a plunder-raid on China...
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