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Japan, gorged with Manchurian spoils but hungry for more, reputedly supplied advisers to Ma Chung-ying. Britain, whose Indian empire verged on the area of revolt, watched with interest. Within the Great Wall, Chiang Kai-shek was simultaneously fighting a half-dozen civil wars, trying to bring his bleeding country into readiness for war with Japan. He had no strength to spare for Turkestan...
...Puppetry. The Jap has long fought his great Oriental neighbor with three arms - military, economic and political. Political pressure he has exerted through puppets. The shadow regime of Henry Pu Yi set Manchurian Chinese apart from their southern countrymen. Similarly the regime of suave Wang Ching-wei, Japan's No. 1 puppet since March 1940, was designed to wean Chinese from allegiance to Chiang Kaishek. For three years the Mikado's generals stupidly sought to give Traitor Wang "face" without a pretense of authority. Chinese derided the puppet premier as "the prisoner of Nanking...
...their elders) and pity and terror (a shrill, doomed maggot-swarm of naked, newborn, state-ticketed Axis babies). There is some effort-there might well have been more-to demonstrate the United Nations' shameful failure to realize the intimate connection between their fate and that of a ravaged Manchurian hut in 1931. There is also a 1939 newsreel, a poll of man-in-the-street views on U.S. intervention: the confused statements and blank, well-meaning faces have a shock value that is startling...
...Japan's Kwantung army, looking for an excuse to invade Manchuria, accused Chinese soldiers of blowing up a section of the Japanese-operated South Manchurian railroad near Liu Ho Kou. Japanese forces occupied the entire Mukden area forthwith. Not a bit embarrassed were the Samurais when it transpired that a train had traversed the damaged section of track half an hour after it was blown up. The Japanese offered various explanations and were even reported to have served up for internal consumption the following: the Japanese engineer, seeing the damage, appealed to the God-Emperor with such success that...
Little new or revealing evidence of those ten tense years is placed before the observer; the events appear in much the same light that illumined them in 1932 or '33. The Japanese betrayal of the Kellogg-Brian compact began the downhill course. Following the Manchurian invasion, Secretary Stimson foresaw repetition of the same form of lawlessness, and American policy began to take shape. By protest and testimonial, American, and later, allied statesmen have been excoriating totalitarian aggression ever since. The rise of Hitler brought warnings from Washington, the invasion of Ethiopia drew pleas for "resumption of international responsibility...