Word: manchurian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peiping a spokesman for the Japanese Legation said: "Prospects are bright for direct negotiations." Confirming this, members of the retinue of Peiping's "Young Marshal," Chang Hsueh-Liang (who is supposed to defend North China), said that "since nothing can be expected from the League of Nations, the Manchurian dispute is leading toward direct negotiations with Tokyo...
...been apprenticed to a brewer of Shoyu (soy sauce), quit brewing to enter the Military Academy (where tuition was free), zealously prepared for what all Japan knew was coming, the Russo-Japanese War. This conflict Imperial Russia had made inevitable by "leasing" from Imperial China the Southern Manchurian peninsula which Japan's "Son of Heaven" had been forced to disgorge...
Thirty-five troop trains had bellowed down from Mukden, Japan's Manchurian war base, to the borderlands of Jehol where railways end. Japanese, though they have never held Jehol, claimed it as part of their puppet state "Manchukuo." Last week Japanese were pained by what seemed to them the ignorance of Western editors in printing such headlines as this in Manhattan's Herald Tribune: JEHOL INVADED BY JAPANESE, CHINA LEARNS. On the contrary, Imperial Japan claimed to be "repulsing" from Jehol soldiers who by their mere presence there were clearly bandits and invaders of Manchukuo...
Ideal for such fighting is the ancient Chinese city of Shanhaikwan, the perfect corner. Surrounded by its own 40-ft. wall and backed by China's Great Wall, Shanhaikwan is a 20th Century Thermopylae, the gateway defending China proper from Manchurian invaders. Last week several thousand Chinese soldiers, armed chiefly with old-style rifles, were ordered to defend Shanhaikwan against the simultaneous assaults of Japanese artillery (19 pieces), Japanese whippet tanks, Japanese machine gun crews, Japanese bombing planes (seven) and Japanese destroyers (two) which fired in high, wide, erratic fashion from their anchorage six miles away in the Gulf...
...Technical Alliance was transmogrified into Technocracy and Howard Scott, Greenwich Village character, pupated into the Technocrat. He moved his living quarters from the Village to the district called Chelsea, a half-mile closer to Columbia University. That his father made money in Constantinople or that he himself "built the Manchurian Railroad" or was born in Virginia or arrived in the U. S. by swimming from a liner from which he had jumped are typical of statements made by people who say that they are friends of the No. 1 Technocrat and that they "have heard...