Word: manchurians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Black Dragon Society has as its most active members today the chief of the army air force, General Kenji Doihara, who participated in the underground operations which started the Manchurian campaign in 1931. A former prime minister, Koki Hirota, who worked for Captain John J. Pershing years ago as an office boy in the American Embassy in Tokyo, is the general manager and monitor at Black Dragon meetings...
Renner's Asia gives to Japan all the shores of the Japan Sea and the Mandated Islands, to Russia a Manchurian warm-water outlet and Outer Mongolia, to China a piece of Indo-China, to Thailand all the rest of Indo-China and a piece of Burma. All the Indies are lumped into an International Zone. India is arbitrarily divided into a Moslem state (west) and a Hindu state (east...
...Chiang Kai-shek was surprised, it was a flash reflex. He knew the Japanese too well for shock. The blast of bombs in Pearl Harbor was the amplified echo of an explosion along a Manchurian railway ten years ago. Since that day Chiang's Government, like some dusty, neglected Cassandra, had warned the Western Powers time & again that some day the Japanese Army would turn on them as it had on China...
Warriors Forward. Gradually the military, and especially the Army extremists, made headway. In 1931 the Kwantung Army fomented the Manchurian Incident which led to the puppet state of Manchukuo. In 1936 the military got credit for the anti-Comintern Pact with Ger many. In 1937 the Army saved the Navy's disastrous Shanghai landing party. And for a while the Army's prestige skyrocketed with the China war, which later led to the longest stalemate in modern history...