Word: manchurian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went on to describe how the kidnapped Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had been attempting to divide the armies an lessen the power of Marshal Chang Hseu-liang, former Manchurian warlord, and stated that if harm befell Chiang Kai-shek, a state of anarchy would ensue that might retard for 25 years the development of China...
Some few facts, nevertheless, have become transparently evident. First, and probably less important, there have been renewed clashes on the Manchurian border since the signing of the Japanese-German military alliance. The second, concerning Suiyan Province, is pregnant with significance...
...China three centuries ago. Today he is a Japanese puppet but he also rules the land of his Manchu forefathers. The population of Manchukuo. which is 95% Chinese, is being taught to venerate His Imperial Majesty Kang Te. Last week under Japanese officers the 95% Chinese troops of his Manchurian Army were the sturdy vassals of Empire who fought the Mongol vassals of the Soviets. Inner Mongolia is rapidly passing from Chinese to Japanese control and, if its people have a spokesman, he is bland, stocky Prince Te who goes often to Peiping, finding that the most comfortable place...
...while he was Dictator Stalin's guest, drove a friendly bargain in Moscow but a bargain definitely to Outer Mongolia's advantage. But for the Russian arms, Russian machine guns and Russian bombing planes which have been rushed to Urga and were last week spectacularly unlimbered, Japanese-Manchurian Armies would soon have tried to sweep all before them and cut across Outer Mongolia to sever the Trans-Siberian Railway at Lake Baikal. By that slashing of a vital artery, Japan could consider that she had all but assassinated Soviet Eastern Asia and that Vladivostok, cut off from Moscow...
...Herriot to himself, sought to persuade the Great Powers to bind themselves to back the League with an organized and rational machinery of Sanctions. "In 1924 the efforts of Herriot were foiled by the British and so eight years later were my own," declared André Tardieu. "During the Manchurian troubles Sir John Simon, as British Foreign Secretary, declared that under no pretext would His Majesty's Government permit their country to be drawn into a conflict...