Word: manchuria
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Significance. The patriotic parties of Japanese reaction and particularly the Army are now strongly in the Japanese ascendent, determined to have Manchuria by fair means or foul, resolved to make of it what they call an "ideal state." Serbia, which no longer exists as such, may have been a nation of assassins. Japan, as Prince Bismarck would have put it, is a profession?refined, subtle, not without its peculiar brand of Japanese idealism...
...Nobuyoshi Miito, who was then Director of Military Education and directly responsible for the cadets. General Miito, far from being demoted after his resignation, was assigned to the Supreme War Council (TIME, June 6). Last week came a climax. General Miito, it was reported, is to be sent to Manchuria in supreme command of 1) the Government of the Japanese Leased [from China] Territory of Kwantung; 2) the Japanese Kwantung Army; 3) the Japanese Army in Manchuria proper and all parts of the so-called independent state of "Manchoukuo"; 4) all Japanese con suls throughout Manchoukuo...
...order thus to exalt the Japanese official whose official responsibility was stained with the blood of Premier Inukai, it was necessary to oust last week the ''Conqueror of Manchuria," taciturn Gen eral Shigeru Honjo (TIME, Oct. 12 et seq.). Orders are orders. Conqueror Honjo packed up on short notice and silently quit Mukden from which he has directed the Japanese occupation of Manchoukuo...
...made a bow to U. S. public opinion by appointing as an "adviser" to the Manchoukuo Government enterprising U. S. Citizen George Bronson Rea. "He is the publisher of The Far Eastern Review of Shanghai," remarked the Associated Press, "and is a stanch defender of Japan's policy in Manchuria...
...Chinese Government in a cablegram to the Chinese Legation at Washington formally charged last week that the Japanese Government is proceeding with the annexation of Manchuria to the Japanese Empire...