Word: manchuria
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...Japan's representative, Dr. Haruichi Nagaoka, who drew whispers of "ye-ah?" and derisive laughter several times during his plea that "floods, mud and storms at sea" have so delayed transmission of the Lytton Report on Japan's occupation of Manchuria that release and discussion of the Report by the Council must be long delayed. League presses were at that very moment printing the report for, as China's Dr. W. W. Yen scathingly observed, there happen to be such things as telegraphs, cables and radio...
...muddy-looking white jade was used for mouth pieces for tobacco and opium pipes in China due to its cheapness. This was also on sale in Harbin and places in Manchuria...
Tall, lanky Henry Walsworth Kinney, public relations director for Japan's South Manchuria Railway, who boasts proudly of his Japanese artist-wife and her step-motherly care of his part Hawaiian son, walked into Harbin last week dressed in a potato sack and part of a tent. Other U. S. travelers were not so lucky. Nude, blue with cold, suffering from exhaustion they staggered into town to tell about four brigand-staged trainwrecks. Most graphic description came from young Henry Hilgard Villard, son of Editor Oswald Garrison Villard of the Nation, on his way across Russia to study...
Japan's Backers. Dismayed by the sheer number of its unheeded protests, the U. S. State Department was silent about Japan's land grab in Manchuria last week. Not so the French Foreign Office. Ever so tactfully in their gilded and ornate Quai D'orsay, French undersecretaries assured reporters that "the French Government's reaction, on the whole, is favorable...
...would, nevertheless, be a mistake to hold Japan up to opprobrium. . . . She saved the country [Manchuria] from [Imperial] Russia at the beginning of the century and she has since protected it from the chaos and anarchy which have beset other parts of China. She legitimately acquired economic rights which were illegitimately obstructed by the Chinese. The Japanese frequently argue in their own defense that they only wish to do in Manchuria the civilizing work which Britain accomplished in Egypt. Historically they claim they also are following the examples in other parts of the world, of the United States, France...