Word: manchuria
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...Japan's Kwantung army, looking for an excuse to invade Manchuria, accused Chinese soldiers of blowing up a section of the Japanese-operated South Manchurian railroad near Liu Ho Kou. Japanese forces occupied the entire Mukden area forthwith. Not a bit embarrassed were the Samurais when it transpired that a train had traversed the damaged section of track half an hour after it was blown up. The Japanese offered various explanations and were even reported to have served up for internal consumption the following: the Japanese engineer, seeing the damage, appealed to the God-Emperor with such success that...
Lowell always politely refused to be interviewed by newsmen. He refused to speak over the radio until 1932, when he was moved to warn the nation that Japan's aggression in Manchuria foretold ultimate war, that the U.S. must join with the League of Nations in an economic boycott. He had advocated a League of Nations even before Woodrow Wilson (from whom he got some of his educational policies), and had publicly debated with the League's archfoe, Henry Cabot Lodge. Lowell was later stirred to broadcast his opposition to the Child-Labor Amendment because he thought...
...could read, last week, an official history of a ten-year frustration. In the 144 documented pages of its white paper, Peace and War, the State Department for the first time set forth the history of its dealings with the Imperial Government of Japan from the 1931 invasion of Manchuria down to the final hours that Cordell Hull spent with Ambassador Nomura and Emissary Kurusu while their countrymen made finally ready for Pearl Harbor...
Chang was trained to be a soldier. For years he fought under his kinsman, the overlord of Manchuria, Chang Tso-lin. Thereafter, in China's convulsive era of war lords, Chang Ching-hui traded his allegiance for whatever bowl of pottage smelled best at the time. In this respect he was only following the rule of most of the high-domed, mustachioed war lords...
...served as Minister of War at Peking. As control changed, he went back to Wu and served as Minister of Industry in Wu's Cabinet. Before the year was out he deserted Wu, made peace again with Chang Tso-lin and became governor of the Harbin district in Manchuria. He was there when Chiang Kai-shek marched into Nanking and consolidated his Nationalist Government. Most of the other war lords joined Chiang then. But not Chang. He sulked in Manchuria and tried a new bargain-this time with the Japanese. For that he earned the premiership of Manchukuo...