Word: manchuria
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Japanese explain General Kenji Doihara to Occidentals as "our Lawrence of Manchuria." It was perfectly all right, they say, for Great Britain to detach Arabia from Turkey during the War by sending Colonel T. E. "Lawrence of Arabia" to stir up the tribes. Therefore has not General Doihara's work in Manchuria, Japanese ask, been equally all right...
...depleting valuable national resources by shipping scrap, and 2) unwittingly helping Japan build a more powerful military machine for aggressive action. They point to the fact that Japan's sharp increase in scrap buying (500% in three years) has taken place since 1931, when fighting began in Manchuria. Hence some members of the Senate Munitions Committee, which is currently investigating Japanese purchases in the U. S., favor an embargo on scrap exports...
...rough, sprawling Harbin, Manchuria swarmed with intrigue-Chinese v. Russians, Japanese v. Chinese, Russians v. Japanese, White Russians v. Red Russians, bandits v. everybody. Into this hotbed, as U. S. Consul, stepped George Charles Hanson, huge, round, genial and imperturbable as a sculptured Buddha. In Shanghai, Chefoo, Dairen, Newchwang, Tientsin, Swatow, Chungking, Foochow he had already made himself one of the Far East's best-known diplomats. It had been 13 years since he left his native Bridgeport, Conn, as a Cornell engineering graduate. In that time he had learned to stay sober while gulping vast quantities of vodka...
...liking to say yes, unable to say no, Japan's blunt No. 1 war dog barked that when Japanese troops invaded Manchuria, drove out "Young Marshal" Chang's Government and opened his abandoned steel safe they did find therein a receipt for 500,000 yuan signed by "two Japanese." The two names General Hayashi refused to reveal...
...newspapers, are the first to appear on any U. S. screen. Also new to most U. S. eyes are old shots dug out of Japanese film libraries of Prince Saionji coming & going between his Tokyo home and the Imperial Palace. These and older scenes-Versailles (1919). Washington (1922), Manchuria (1932)-together with new exclusive views of delegates to this winter's London Naval Conference are tied into a narrative essay on the current politico-military situation in Japan for The March of Time audiences...