Word: manchuria
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...willing to sell but want much more money than financially strapped Japan wants to pay. Troop movements, Japanese hectoring of Russian railwaymen. Soviet seizure of rolling stock are just so many stages of bargaining. Already the Manchukuo Ministry of Communications has renamed the C. E. R. the North Manchuria Railway...
Japanese bugles in China are not so loud as Japan's bugle diplomat, Yosuke Matsuoka. After he stalked out of the League of Nations' conference on Manchuria last February, he sounded off for Japan through France, Britain and the U. S. Back home, the Japanese glowed proudly at Matsuoka's Japanism. Even Occidental diplomats were impressed by the single-mindedness of this little U. S.-educated yellow man. He had yielded not an inch on Japan's claims. Last week Matsuoka arrived in Tokyo...
...children, soldiers, bodyguards and generals. In the centre of the group was that irrepressible jack-in-the-box, droop-whiskered General Ma Chan-shan. Bland General Ma was acclaimed "China's Hero" year and a half ago when he offered the only serious resistance to Japanese invasion of Manchuria (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931 et seq.). Immediately thereafter he put on an exhibition of double-crossing unrivalled even among the Chinese. Having first received thousands of dollars from his patriotic countrymen, he then fled before the Japanese advance, then accepted a reputed bribe of $3,000,000 gold...
...this difference: Japan did not first conquer Manchukuo and then give it virtual independence. Manchukuo sprang into being as an independent state. As such it is not a protectorate, just a friendly nation. . . . Your country has not made the sacrifices in developing its neighbors that Japan has made in Manchuria. I question whether the United States would permit the territory contiguous to the Panama Canal or important points in the Caribbean to be held by a hostile power. . . . I suppose you know that American trade with Manchukuo has increased since the foundation of the independent state, while Japanese trade...
...Geneva I made it plain the Japanese delegation had walked out of a special session on the Manchuria question with no intention of returning for that discussion. I cannot say whether Japan has withdrawn from the League. On that I am waiting word from Tokyo. My part is done...