Word: manchuria
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Calvin Coolidge died. John Patrick O'Brien became Mayor of New York City. The Japanese quit the League of Nations over Manchuria. Germany fell under Adolf Hitler's sway. Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated President of the U. S. The U. S. went off the gold standard. Beer came back. And still the National Diversified Corp. fraud trial ran on & on in Manhattan Federal Court...
...Tokyo businesslike Bolsheviks offered for sale last week the romantic railroad spanning wild & woolly North Manchuria which was imperially and corruptly whelped at the coronation of Tsar Nicholas...
...still Tsarevich, young Nicholas sailed with a gorgeous retinue into dazzled Vladivostok. This outpost of the Russian Empire he proclaimed -quite in the manner of Edward of Wales today-must be linked by rail with St. Petersburg. Preferably the line should run direct, cutting from Vladivostok straight across North Manchuria, then Chinese. Five years later China's wicked old Empress Dowager sent to Nicholas II's coronation an ancient Chinese with a world-great name and an itching palm, the Viceroy Li Hung-chang...
...eventually built, the railway not only spanned North Manchuria, but branched off from the Russian-built junction, Harbin, to traverse South Manchuria and end at Port Arthur. That fatal branch, the great Imperial Russian Minister, Count Witte, later admitted, largely provoked the Russo-Japanese war. Japan, when she had whipped the Russians, seized their southern branch from Port Arthur as far up as Changchun (140 miles below Harbin) and made it her own great, imperial iron road, the Japanese South Manchuria Railway...
...light of Japan's dazzling conquest in Manchuria who was right: the few Japanese statesmen and financiers who stood out against war or the youths who murdered them? In Tokyo last week 13 youths, Blood Brothers of the patriotic murder sect led by strapping Priest Nissho Inouye, were brought to trial with him. At his bidding they assassinated last year ex-Finance Minister Junnosuke Inouye (who argued that the Japanese budget could not support a war) and Japan's No. 1 financier, Baron Dr. Takuma Dan (convinced to the roots of his gentle soul that the Mitsui business...