Word: manchuria
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...Uncle is no relation whatever to the young War Lord, but served right well his late, great father, War Lord Chang Tsolin, who began life as a mere coolie, took up the profession of banditry, and founded in Manchuria a quite illegal but practically effective Rule of the House of Chang...
While the Old Marshal lived he and Japan were friendly, and Manchuria knew such peace and prosperity as never before. The Young Marshal believes that the bombs which killed his father were Japanese (TIME, June 11, 1928). He nurses an implacable hatred for Nippon. Last week Old Uncle, a family retainer who has outgrown and succeeded the House of Chang, loomed as likely to make every effort to meet Japanese half way and try to rule Manchuria in the same manner Old Marshal...
...resignation of President Chiang Kai-shek (see above"] the first interview granted to Tokyo correspondents last week by Premier Ki ("Old Fox") Inukai lost much of its quaint, cackling obscurity, became significant and fairly clear. With a bony forefinger the white-bearded Premier traced an imaginary map of Manchuria on the jade-green cover of the table behind which...
...Manchuria!" he chuckled. "Hee, hee. hee-why, we wouldn't take Manchuria as a gift! We'd have to look after all those 30,000,000 Chinese and feed them, heh. heh. Now the Chinese are a peaceful people. They're not warriors by any means and they really hate to fight. I know the Chinese well. Anyone who knows China's long history, the characteristics of the race, the vastness of the country, must realize that for Japan or any other nation to try to wrest from them any part of their territory would...
...insist upon," declared the wheezing Old Fox, "is that China recognize our treaty rights, under which Japan has acquired vast interests approximating $1,000,000,000 [in Manchuria], and that there be guaranteed the safety of the Japanese and the nearly 800,000 Koreans who are Japanese subjects. So that they may live in peace and carry on their respective enterprises...