Word: manchuria
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...late evening of September 18, the whole imposing edifice collapsed like a circus tent assailed by impatient roustabouts. Japan had detected some reputed Chinese sabotage on the Japanese-controlled South-Manchuria Railroad and Japanese troops marched into Mukden. By the standards of the era which had passed, the world has been haywire ever since...
...Mongols last week are attached to the famed fire-eating Kwantung Army, the 350,000 crack troops garrisoned in Manchukuo. The "Kwantung clique," headed by War Minister General Seishiro Itagaki and the radical young officers of the Kwantung Army, is a law unto itself. In 1931, when it decided Manchuria was ripe for plucking, it manufactured the "Mukden Incident" and marched in from Korea, much to the surprise of the Tokyo Government. In Manchukuo it runs the whole show, bossing the Government of Emperor Kang Teh (Henry Pu Yi) and owning or controlling every major industry. Many Kwantung officers deplore...
...collaboration in stopping the Japanese. Sir John Simon, the British Foreign Secretary, not only turned the offer down, but later, at Geneva, argued for "realism" and "flexibility" in applying the League of Nations Covenant against Japan. What the British then hoped was that the Japanese would turn northward from Manchuria and clash with the Soviet Union, leaving their huge investments in China (said to be worth $1,410,000,000) alone. Instead the Japanese marched southward, and last week Britain's diplomatic chickens of 1932 had come home to roost. Small comfort it was to the British that outside...
...years he pursued a policy of buying off and placating the Japanese. He failed to stand in their way in 1931, when they grabbed at Manchuria. He failed to back up the courageous Chinese Nineteenth Route Army when it fought against Japanese invaders of the Chapei district of Shanghai in 1932. He let the northern province of Jehol fall into Japanese hands...
...adds up to this, TIME: somewhere in America are the family and friends of a young man who died in Manchuria; they may know of his Russian wife, and of his daughter. They are probably readers of TIME-what student of world affairs is not? and through its medium they may release the girl from her life of tragedy. Any correspondence on this subject may be forwarded to me in Portales, New Mexico, or directly to the C. I. M. Hospital at Anshuen, Kweichow, South China...