Word: manchurian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West Indies, educated in London and "not a Chinese at all" according to his enemies, said on landing at Shanghai, "I believe in facing facts. Japan's position in Manchuria is a fact. China, having no military force,* must depend on diplomatic means to settle the Manchurian affair. China must ally herself with nations willing to cope with the Japanese Imperialists...
...Setting morals aside, Japanese rule has proven more efficient than Chinese. Japanese troops along the Southern Manchurian Railway (long before the recent Japanese occupation of Manchuria) induced comparative peace. Result: 1,000,000 Chinese have been emigrating from chaotic central China to Manchuria each year, seeking the Pax Japana...
...continued Count Uchida, making his big point, "since the Chinese Government at Nanking is incapable of negotiating a settlement, Japan must negotiate with the new Manchurian administrations when they are soundly established...
...Japanese bombing planes let go with terrific moral & material effect on the barracks of Chinese soldiers at Chinchow, the base to which these remnants of Marshal Chang's Manchurian Army had retreated from Mukden...
...late, barbaric War Lord Chang Tso-lin.) They were replaced by an un savory group of Chinese calling themselves the Peoples Preservation Committee who seemed disposed to declare the secession of Manchuria from the rest of China. Other secessionist movements were reported (by the Japanese press) in such leading Manchurian cities as Harbin and Kirin. Finally in Tokyo suave General Jiro Minami, Japanese War Minister credited with secretly ordering the whirl wind Japanese occupation of Manchuria (TIME, Sept. 28), appeared before the Japanese Cabinet last week with a sheaf of telegrams in his small, hard fist. According to General Minami...