Word: manchuria
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...conversion campaign. Prince George did not get the dukedom from his father that British newspapers were expecting, but the hard-working Duke of Gloucester was made a Knight of the Thistle for his good behavior. Lord Lytton was made a Knight of the Garter for his League report on Manchuria...
...Miles Middleman. This was bad news for British and French businessmen in North China. Their colleagues in Manchuria had got a taste of Japan's policy of a nominal "open door" with a thousand petty obstructions for foreign businessmen. Last week two of the oldest British firms in China (Jardine, Matheson & Co. and Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp.) began to close their Manchurian branches. Fearing a duplication in North China, the British Minister to China, Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson called on the Japanese Charge d'Affaires in Peiping, Shoichi Xakayama, and offered himself as middleman in direct negotiations between...
Whether Russia had anything to sell was last week a question. The railroad runs through Manchuria, now practically a province of Japan. By the original Russo-Chinese agreement on which the road was built, China had the right to buy it after 1936 and got it free in 1980. This...
...lived until last week Li Ching-yun. In China where Age means something he was a great man. By his own story he was born in 1736, had lived 197 years. By the time he was ten years old he had traveled in Kansu, Shansi, Tibet, Annam, Siam and Manchuria gathering herbs. He continued to gather herbs for the rest of his first 100 years. He lived on herbs and plenty of rice wine. When asked for his secret of long life. Li Ching-yun gave it readily: "Keep a quiet heart, sit like a tortoise, walk sprightly like...
...apologized for his "failure to make the other nations understand Japan's position," advised the Japanese not to waste their time on such "an unworthy servant." Second, he bitterly attacked the "attitude of superiority toward Asiatics" in British Lord Lytton's League of Nations Report on Manchuria. Third, getting his tongue into his bugle, he said, "Japan is in a position never to compromise in any way regarding recognition of Manchukuo...