Word: manchuria
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...ended. The Butterfly's beauty and talent had moved her on & up 1) from the studio of a maker of obscene postcards, 2) to the arms of Henry Pu-yi, stooge ruler of Manchukuo, 3) to the arms of Marshal Chang Hsüeh-liang, onetime overlord of Manchuria. 4) to the position of No. 1 cinestar in China, 5) to Episcopalian marriage to wealthy Christian Vintner Eugene Penn of Shanghai...
...Japs had special reason to hate Editor Powell. Most famed and un-scarable of English-language editors in China, he had been singled out as Jap "Public Enemy No. 1" as far back as the invasion of Manchuria. When they banned the Review in Jap territory, he organized his own underground postal service. When their gangsters attacked his Shanghai printing plant, he steel-plated its doors, went armed. A hand grenade last year hit him in the back but failed to explode. The day before Pearl Harbor his head editorial denounced the Japs for stealing motor cars (including...
...Japanese government as adviser on international affairs. Seven ambassadors to Washington-Shidehara, Hanihara, Mat-sudaira, Debuchi, Saito, Horinouchi, Nomura-worked with his assistance. He was a member of the Japanese delegation which went to the League of Nations to argue Japan's case for the invasion of Manchuria. When Matsuoka, the delegation's head; insolently marched out of the League Assembly, he was followed by all his fellow delegates save Frederick Moore...
Japanese "entry" into Manchuria. Manchuria, he argued, was populated by "only 30 million people," and was rich and fertile. It seemed to provide every reason for not invading China. For it was over China that even Mr. Moore's extensive approval began to shrink. It was then he found himself unable to support "an army domination which not only assassinated its own chiefs of state, but also provoked wanton wars at will...
Japan's main targets are bound to be two: Vladivostok in the southeast, and the famed Trans-Siberian Railway, the long and vulnerable artery of Russian Asia (see map). Since Russia lost the shorter, more direct Chinese Eastern Railway through conquered Manchuria to Vladivostok, the Trans-Siberian has been the U.S.S.R.'s only land link with her Pacific port. And the Trans-Siberian is perilously open to attack: by land and air from northwestern Manchukuo, by land across the wide but easily passable Gobi (which, for all its fearsome reputation, is more like Nebraska and the Dakotas than...