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Overshadowing every other event in the Far East this week was the abrupt appointment of Japan's arch-Fascist and patrioteer Yosuke Matsuoka as President of Japan's most potent engine of economic expansion into China, the South Manchuria Railway. This appointment ousted S. M. R.'s comparatively mild and cautious president, Count Hirotaro Hayashi, who balked schemes of Japanese jingoes to establish a Development Company for North China in which S. M. R. would hold a controlling interest. Such a company was to exploit North China, as the British East India Company exploited India a century...
...President Matsuoka, brilliant, ruth less, resourceful, has been called "the most Westernized of Japanese leaders and the most dangerous to the West." It was he who haughtily led Japan's delegation out of the League of Nations when Geneva tried to curb his country's invasion of Manchuria (TIME, March...
...Miss Warner is a wet blanket at parties, has been known plaintively to ask fellow guests who were making whoopee to sit down and let her read them a few verses of classical French poetry. Her brother Gerald (Dartmouth 1930) is the meticulous U. S. vice consul at Mukden, Manchuria...
...Manchuria the Japanese regularly load trains with seeds, cinemas, drygoods, hardware and propagandists, dispatch them to the back districts for the edification of incredulous Chinese. In the U. S. railroad peddling has been largely confined to private cars in which crack executives tour the land, scatter cheer to underlings and big customers. Last autumn Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Chase National Bank led a long goodwill mission around the borders of the U. S. in a private car with his nephew Nelson Rockefeller as Exhibit A (TIME, Dec. 24). But not until last fortnight when Chicago's Marshall Field...
While we pray over the bleached bones of the Blue Eagle, while Europe staggers under the weight of a monetary crisis and the militant activity of Herr Adolph, Japan prepares for another invasion into China. Not satisfied with the rape of Manchuria, the Nipponese warlords now turn their lascivious eyes at the fertile lands lying between the Great Wall and the Yellow River...