Word: manchuria
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...first time since the present game of international power politics began in 1931 (when Japan seized Manchuria) the London-Washington Axis dealt the cards last week. With growing concern the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis watched them fall. The removal of the moral embargo against Russia (see p. 11) may have been only a nine-spot, but the missions of such men as Harry Hopkins, Wild Bill Donovan (see p. 21) and Wendell Willkie (see p. 16) might turn up jacks or better. The unprecedented welcome President Roosevelt gave Lord Halifax (see p. 11) was an ace with which the Lend...
...Tokyo Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka took Cordell Hull to task for saying that the invasion of Manchuria was the first step in the destruction of world peace (TIME, Jan. 27). "The Manchurian affair," said talky, U. S.-educated Mr. Matsuoka (Oregon, '00), "was not the cause but the result of Anglo-Saxon interference in the Far East." As the Diet met to vote the Konoye Government unprecedented powers and an unprecedented $1,611,432,400 budget (not counting war expenses), the Foreign Minister found himself on his feet most of the time. He said everything he had ever said...
...acts by instinct. His body and mind are as hard as steel but also as sensitive as an ack-ack predictor. He learned the technique of revolution as a Japanese military attaché by watching Russian barricades in 1917. By 1931, he commanded a heavy-artillery unit in Manchuria, and was one of those responsible for the Manchurian incident of that year. Five years later he was one of the plotters in the bloody "February Revolt," in which many Government leaders were killed. He was publicly cashiered, but with the outbreak of war in China was taken back into...
State religion of Japan since the Meiji Restoration of 1868 has been Shintoism ("The Great Way of the Gods"), a native Japanese system of nature and ancestor worship. Shrine Shinto is worship of the Imperial ancestors. Since the invasion of Manchuria Japanese nationalists have emphasized its religio-patriotic importance...
...word which Prince Konoye used last week in connection with foreign policy, Matsuoka once used of domestic-in an intuitive anticipation of the streamlined Government into which he was called fortnight ago: "Japan," he said as he assumed presidency of the monopolistic South Manchuria Railway five years ago, "cannot halt its North China operations. The arrow has already left the bow ... to carry through these operations a domestic renovation is inevitable." When he re signed from the S. M. R. last year because he could not tolerate Army interference, he declared: "If they would just let a businessman...