Word: manchuria
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...Kingly Way." Defiant too was General Nobuyoshi Muto last week as he left Tokyo to take up his duties as Supreme-Military Commander in Manchuria and Ambassador on Special Mission to the puppet state of Manchoukuo. He baldly shouted his militarist creed...
...Manchuria, Japanese troops celebrated the coming of their new commander by invading Jehol Province (TIME, Aug. 1). Led by bombing planes, flanked by armored trains and tanks, a Japanese force under General Suzuki swept over the Jehol border from Chinchow and captured Nanling. General Tung Fu-ting, defending general, telegraphed wildly from Nanling to Nanking for reinforcements. Chiang Kai-shek did not answer. Japanese troops resting in Nanling sent a three-day ultimatum to the city of Chaoyang, 30 miles away, their objective as a base for the conquest of the whole province. As in the original invasion of Manchuria...
Chinese boycotters continued to make hay, feeling sure that Japan will drop no more bombs in Shanghai at least until after the League of Nations' long-delayed report on Shanghai and Manchuria is published in September...
Special Session. Correspondents expect that it will be a very special session of the Diet indeed. Reports persisted that to offset the coming publication of the League report on Manchuria, which it is generally expected will hold Japan guilty of aggression in Manchuria, Foreign Minister Count Yasuya Uchida will echo an idea which Japanese say was tossed off by the late great Theodore Roosevelt in 1905 in one of his imperialistic moments: a Japanese expanded Monroe Doctrine, by which Japan will announce herself the guardian and protector of new Asiatic nations during their adolescence...
This struck the supersensitive skins of Japanese statesmen as a direct charge of aggression in Manchuria. Possibly organized by the Foreign Office, all Japanese newspapers commenced a great Yakamashii or "Big Noise." Above the Yakamashii a Foreign Office spokesman announced that Japan was just about to recognize formally the existence of her puppet state "Manchoukuo." As a practical step toward doing so General Nobuyoshi Muto replaced General Honjo as commander in Manchuria with the impressive titles of "Supreme Military and Commander," "Ambassador on Special Mission...