Word: manchuria
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Previous presidents have been appointed by their party when it won control of the Government, have lost their jobs when the Opposition party managed to seize power. But last week Japan made President of the South Manchuria Railway her august, aloof Count Yasuya Uchida...
...South Manchuria Railway is Japan's Panama Canal. She holds it by treaty & might. It is a vital artery of Japan's trade, tapping the rich Chinese territory of Manchuria in which so many thousands of Japanese farmers have settled. Japan ought to have done years ago what she did last week-namely, appointed a President of the South Manchuria Railway who is above party strife...
...presence of Marshal Chang Hsuehliang in Nanking last week was the most important fact in China. Had the young marshal refused to come, had he made excuses tarrying up North in Peiping or Manchuria, the game of President Chiang would have been definitely up. The President's strength is now in the North, a paradox, for he got his start in the South at Canton, where revolution burst last week. From Canton in the brief space of two years (1926-28) President Chiang conquered all China. His only hope of maintaining this conquest now lies in the friendship...
...smart young War Lord who has joined the Nationalists is "Chang Jr.," son of the late, barbaric Lord of Manchuria, Chang Tso-lin, he who reclined elegantly with one or more of his wives on a couch of tiger skins while an executioner, for his amusement, chopped off a head? any head would...
Chang Jr., despatches said last week, has now bought himself a trimotored Ford plane, commutes in it between Mukden, his inherited Capital of Manchuria, and Peiping (once Peking). At Peiping his official style is "His Excellency Chang Hsueh-liang, vice Commander of the Army & Navy with Jurisdiction over Four Provinces & Governor of Manchuria...