Word: manchuria
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...handed to sleek, sensitive Chinese War Minister Ho Ying-chin, who was assigned in 1933 to defend North China and promised "We shall also reconquer Jehol and Manchuria!" the chief Japanese demands were...
These were but the most immediate of many recent and amiable overtures (chiefly initiated by Japan) to make U. S. and Japanese citizens like each other more & more, to turn the black tides of circumstance which have made them like each other less & less ever since Japan bolted into Manchuria in spite of Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson's ineffectual "Whoa...
...Beans. The soy bean, seed of an Asiatic herb, is the main crop of Manchuria, a staple food for Chinese and Japanese. In the U. S. some 3,000,000 acres were planted to soy beans last year. Most of the U. S. crop goes into forage. But some is made into sauce for chop suey, some into cooking oil, some into bread for diabetics. Henry Ford's chemist, R. H. McCarroll, foreseeing industrial uses of soy beans, got Mr. Ford to plant 10,000 acres to soy beans last year, 30,000 this year. From soy bean...
According to the analysis presented by Mr. Rea, Manchuria was never a part of China. Under the Manchus and in the Abdication Agreements, there was a complete recognition of the independent status of Manchuria. Furthermore, even if this analysis is not acceptable, Mr. Rea contends that the military despotism of the War Lords at Nanking furnished a satisfactory justification for a revolutionary separation from the fatherland. In short, Manchuria was exercising the rights of any downtrodden nation in seeking the aid of Japan to defeat the forces of Chiang-Kai-shek...
...prefer the real Government of Japan to the camouflage Government of China !" boomed the Duke of Atholl. "The best plan is to leave Japan alone to occupy Manchuria and Inner Mongolia...