Word: manchurian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fled before the Japanese advance and turned up as War Minister of "Independent Manchuria," the puppet state set up by Japan (TIME, March 21). Last week War Minister Ma did not send his telegram from Changchun, the puppet capital of Independent Manchuria. Instead he traveled to the remote Manchurian frontier city of Taheiho, just across the Amur River from Soviet Russia. There, with a fine disregard of telegraph costs, he wired over 1,000 words to President Chiang and to Marshal Wu?words which amounted to a dignified Chinese horse laugh at Japan. Excerpts...
...coup d'état last week. For the first time a newsorgan of first magnitude made articulate the mounting fear that Japan's parliamentary institutions (imported only 42 years ago from the West) might be thrust aside by the military clique which launched Japan on her recent Manchurian and Shanghai adventures...
...Office learned that Statesman Stimson had absolutely refused to recognize the puppet régime Japan has set up in Manchuria. Hotly the Foreign Office's press spokesman burst out: "The United States cannot rob us of the fruits of our victory by withholding recognition of the new Manchurian State...
...give you two examples. First, can anyone doubt that the machinery at Geneva for preserving the peace would have been much stronger during the past six months if from the very beginning of the Manchurian crisis last September our Government had been in avowed and effective cooperation with the Council of the League of Nations? We did send a representative to the Council, with limited powers, in October; but in November and December when we sent Chicago's playboy to Paris, he merely flirted with the Council, saying at one moment that he would and at the next moment that...
...House, of which the majority are graduate students. Members of the council have a much stronger sense of politics than native-born Americans and enter into the discussions with greater zeal and interest, as has been evident from the discussion of minority issues, the British Foreign Policy, and the Manchurian situation, which the Council has treated in the last three meetings...