Word: manchuria
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Since Japan flouted its League obligations by puppetizing Manchuria before withdrawing from the League, the inescapable inference from Dr. Hoo's protest, an inference he adroitly left for others to draw, is that Japan cannot pull out of the League. "I deplore M. Avenol's conception of Japan's obligations, a conception which would weaken the Covenant!" cried Dr. Hoo. "Under such a conception any country could violate the Covenant and withdraw with impunity...
...Japan's and Italy's military expansions are least exciting because their motives are most obvious. Their plans for Manchuria and Abyssinia have been accepted by the world as their own respective businesses...
Heir Astor, so shy that he often swallows twice before answering a simple question, was sent by the League of Nations' cowardly Lytton Commission to investigate Northern Manchuria when they deemed it too dangerous to go themselves (TiME, May 30, 1932). Next year, stopping in Manhattan's new Waldorf-Astoria, Mr. Astor remarked: "When my friends try to telephone me and ask for Waldorf Astor the operators say, 'Oh, yeah?' I suppose it is rather like calling up the Aquarium and asking for Mr. Fish...
...Russia's last ruling Romanov had not overreached himself by building a railway clear across Manchuria and down to Port Arthur, thus provoking the disastrous Russo-Japanese War, he might conceivably be on his throne today. From the shame of their defeat by yellow men, Russia's Imperial Government never entirely recovered but they did always manage to hold the steel ribbons into furthest Asia which they had built, the Chinese Eastern Railway. Last week, to the shame of Soviet Russia, her rights over the C. E. R. were sold, or rather yielded to Manchukuo by Joseph Stalin...
That Japan is the real buyer sufficiently appeared when the Japanese South Manchuria Railway announced that it will operate the Chinese Eastern Railway henceforth as the "North Manchuria Railway," re-equipping it-with British rolling stock-to match the narrower "American gauge" of its own lines...