Word: manchurian
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...Sept. 18, 1931 a strip of Japanese-owned railway north of Mukden was blown up by a person or persons unknown. The Japanese Kwantung Army used the incident as an excuse to seize Manchuria in defiance of the Japanese Empire's treaty obligations. A crime condoned, the Manchurian Incident was followed by other acts of international brigandage until the entire code of international morality disintegrated...
...amateur horticulturist named Dr. James Mease. "The soybean is adapted to Pennsylvania," he observed, "and should be cultivated." But Europe (where they are hard to grow) and America (where they grow easily) alike ignored the soybean until the Russo-Japanese War left Japan with a surplus of Manchurian beans to dump somewhere. In 1908 the fabulous banker-merchant clan of Mitsui shipped 2,000 tons to England, where cottonseed and linseed oils were momentarily scarce. Soybean oil proved a good substitute, and from then on both Europe and the U.S. imported increasing quantities...
...Tokyo Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka took Cordell Hull to task for saying that the invasion of Manchuria was the first step in the destruction of world peace (TIME, Jan. 27). "The Manchurian affair," said talky, U. S.-educated Mr. Matsuoka (Oregon, '00), "was not the cause but the result of Anglo-Saxon interference in the Far East." As the Diet met to vote the Konoye Government unprecedented powers and an unprecedented $1,611,432,400 budget (not counting war expenses), the Foreign Minister found himself on his feet most of the time. He said everything he had ever said...
...seemed to the superpatriots to have betrayed Japan's divine mission to dominate Asia. Toyama personally had a hand in promoting the acquisition of Korea and in starting the Russo-Japanese war, and through the incredible Major Dohihara and a ruffian named Komei precipitated the Manchurian incident...
...hard as steel but also as sensitive as an ack-ack predictor. He learned the technique of revolution as a Japanese military attaché by watching Russian barricades in 1917. By 1931, he commanded a heavy-artillery unit in Manchuria, and was one of those responsible for the Manchurian incident of that year. Five years later he was one of the plotters in the bloody "February Revolt," in which many Government leaders were killed. He was publicly cashiered, but with the outbreak of war in China was taken back into the Army. In December 1937, on his own initiative...