Word: manchurian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pacific financial and teriff policies, all give evidence of a political state of mind fatal to Pacific stability. Flouting all the nations of the earth by breaking all previous treaties, she seized Manchuria from a recumbent China. And now after her saber-rattling naval announcement, she attempts to monopolize Manchurian oil fields and to drive out American, British and Dutch interests represented by the Standard Oil, Royal Shell and other companies...
...country has more to gain from peace and the sanctity of treaties than France. So it is not surprising to find that many Frenchmen are now saying that France made a tragic mistake in supporting Japan (in a backhand manner) in the Manchurian affair. And they note, with bitterness, that it was the Do Wendel press that wanted to let Japan have her imperial...
...France's great credit it must be said also that, except in the Manchurian affair, France has been, for her own best interest, the stanchest supporter of the League. More than that, her Briand was unquestionably the greatest Peace Man of the post-war decade. Today, many a Frenchman is resentful of the fact that Briand's policies did not succeed in conciliating Germany, and while blaming Germany most, he wonders whether the failure was not helped along by the patriotic M. de Wendel...
When Japan added Jehol Province to its Manchurian grab in 1932, it got one splendid old ruin with its haul-the 17th Century hunting lodge of the old Manchu Emperors of China, spread over the hills outside Jehol City. By last week it was still overgrown with weeds but Japan planned to make it fresh and new to remind Manchukuans of the ancestral glories of their puppet Emperor Kang...
...frontiers, the usual crop of "incidents'' made the week as lively as ever. Two Soviet civilian pilots flew a light bombing plane northward from Vladivostok into Manchukuan territory, had trouble and landed. They were arrested by Japanese soldiers who first shooed away some Manchurian ruffians. In Tokyo dispatches, this became a "rescue from bandits" and the aviators had "violated Manchukuan territory...