Word: manchuria
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...Service. Some said he found diplomatic discipline galling to his lone-cat temperament, his American education a liability in a service dominated by Tokyo Imperial University graduates. True to form, he reappeared on a higher rung five months later, as director, later president, of that octopus, the South Manchuria Railway. The South Manchuria Railway was no mere private enterprise; half its money was Government money, its policies were the Government's. The Railway not only controlled some 1,300 kilometers of railroad, but operated steamships, harbors, coal mines, shale-oil plants, ironworks, chemical-fertilizer plants, electric & gas plants, hotels...
Campaign by Talk. Having furthered Japanese imperialist expansion in Manchuria and North China, Yosuke Matsuoka was just the man to explain to the world Japan's case after Japan seized Manchuria in 1931. He was sent as chief delegate to the Plenary Session of the League of Nations, which was considering the Lytton Report on the China-Japan conflict. There he conducted a dramatic rearguard campaign in a series of unconventional, eloquent, unrehearsed speeches in which he dragged in even Christ...
...such thing as China. "It is a conglomeration of disunited nations and hostile chieftains." The 43 nations voted to condemn Japan; Siam, the 44th, abstained. Mr. Matsuoka gathered his papers, stalked out, his suite scuttling after him. His arguments had failed to convince, but Japan got away with the Manchuria grab and the note he set at Geneva was echoed later by Italy over Ethiopia and by Germany over the Rhineland...
...Shaw spent five years in Russia, served as U.S. vice consul in Siberia, helped spirit the bones of the Tsar's family out of the Soviet Union to the British at Harbin, Manchuria. A vice president, he now bosses National City's foreign exchange trading...
...exiled Royal Government of Norway advanced ?50,000 last week to help keep the war-orphaned Norwegian Lutheran missions going in China, the Cameroons, South Africa. Manchuria, Madagascar. Cut off from home support by the Nazi invasion, the Norse missionaries will get their aid through the Rev. Johan Arnd Aasgaard of Minneapolis, president of the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America since 1925. Administrator Aasgaard believes this is the first time in history that a government has financed a church's foreign missions, considers it a dramatic proof that "the Allied forces are fighting for Christianity and democracy...