Word: manchus
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...Chinese are unbeatable by the Japanese of 1938, for the same reason that they have been unbeatable as far back as history goes. The Chinese people have biologically absorbed and turned into "Chinese" all their many conquerors, of whom the last were the Manchus. Last week Newspundit Walter Lippmann concluded from the fall of Canton and Hankow that "Japan has won the war." but neither Chinese nor Japanese agreed with newsy Occidental efforts to anticipate the ponderous course of Oriental history...
There are now elements in the situation. One is the fact that the present invader, Japan, is intensely nationalistic, which means culturally nationalistic. The Mongols and Manchus, and even the Japanese centuries ago, were not unwilling to adopt the then superior civilization of China. But it is inconceivable that modern, chauvinistic, industrialized Japan should...
...Chinese-speaking white correspondents at Shanghai, agreed last week that the Nanking Government of sagacious Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has now got a firmer hold upon recently rebellious South China than has been held by any Chinese Government since the collapse in 1912 of the Empire of the Manchus...
...strafed the ground forces with machine guns. Fighting continued all week, with the Buddhist temple still the main objective. Dispatches reached the outer world by two fantastically difficult routes, via Urga and Moscow and via Hsinking and Tokyo. At latest reports the Soviet-Mongol forces outnumbered the Japanese-Manchus at least two-to-one and Japanese war planes were about to rush belatedly to the rescue clear across the mountains from Tsitsihar, the war base established by Japanese after they defeated famed General Ma and set up the Manchu Emperor (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931 et seq.). Relations Ruptured- In jittery...
According to the analysis presented by Mr. Rea, Manchuria was never a part of China. Under the Manchus and in the Abdication Agreements, there was a complete recognition of the independent status of Manchuria. Furthermore, even if this analysis is not acceptable, Mr. Rea contends that the military despotism of the War Lords at Nanking furnished a satisfactory justification for a revolutionary separation from the fatherland. In short, Manchuria was exercising the rights of any downtrodden nation in seeking the aid of Japan to defeat the forces of Chiang-Kai-shek...