Word: mongol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese cue was forced on the Chinese 292 years ago by their Manchu conquerors as a badge of subjection. Last December one of the last old-fashioned cues in the Orient, dangling from the head of the Inner Mongol leader, Prince Te,* Prince of West Sunit, bobbed in puppet subjection to gifts of Japanese cash & guns. The Prince declared Inner Mongolia independent of the Chinese Government at Nanking...
...leading a great rebellion against Prince Te. "My men are patriots," Yun trumpeted, "and absolutely opposed to Prince Te's pro-Japanese policy." This might have meant much or nothing, but one thing Premier Chiang read plainly between the lines of the telegram: There would be no Inner Mongol rebellion unless Nanking forked out some cash...
...deep fastness of Eastern Asia, along nebulous frontiers supposed to divide Soviet power from the forces of Empire, battle was joined as a thousand Mongol rifles cracked and light Japanese tanks whirled into action. The fighting last week came as a grim climax. Preludes have been more than 100 frontier "incidents" as the Japanese Empire and its vassals steadily encroached toward the Soviet Union. Russia has been afraid to fight back, so Japan has found year after year. Finally and historically, Russia and her vassals began to fight back in earnest last week. This outburst of undeclared...
...which Joseph Stalin has not altogether had his way. Stubborn, the Mongols have gradually talked their Russian patrons out of many Communist innovations unsuited to such nomads as themselves. Today Urga is emphatically the capital of Outer Mongolia, not a mere dependency of Moscow. Mongol Premier Gendun, while he was Dictator Stalin's guest, drove a friendly bargain in Moscow but a bargain definitely to Outer Mongolia's advantage. But for the Russian arms, Russian machine guns and Russian bombing planes which have been rushed to Urga and were last week spectacularly unlimbered, Japanese-Manchurian Armies would soon...
...Hsinking, but cooler-headed was the Japanese Government than the Government of Manchukuo. Japanese bluff & bluster has been loud during the years in which Bolsheviks have meekly put up with provoking frontier incidents, merely writing diplomatic notes which the Japanese Foreign Office sometimes answered, sometimes ignored. But with Soviet-Mongol forces actually showing fight last week Japanese War Minister Kawashima suddenly found it opportune to tell Tokyo reporters: " The Red Army of the Soviet Union is 1,300,000 strong and the Soviet Far Eastern Army amounts to 250,000- equal to the entire standing Army of Japan." Secretary...