Word: mongolia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quite remarkable pamphlet, issued by the World Peace Movement, 108 Park Row, New York City, purporting to be a memorial addressed by Premier Tanaka of Japan to the Emperor on July 25, 1927. The so-called memorial outlines a very comprehensive scheme for Japanese seizure of Manchuria and Mongolia, the later conquest of China, and wars with Russia and the U. S. . . . I should like to ask if there is any reason to suppose the alleged memorial to be genuine and authentic...
...Chinese had eaten a Japanese baby, etc. etc.) The Foreign Office published an official statement insisting that not a shot had been fired until Japanese marines were sniped by Chinese regulars. Meanwhile the Tokyo Asahi quietly announced that thousands of new jobs were open to Japanese in Manchuria and Mongolia. The South Manchuria Railway sent a message to half a dozen Japanese universities last week that it would be prepared to employ hundreds of graduates in China this spring. It asked for lists of recommended students...
...strip out of the ragged map of China. In Mukden, Correspondent Victor Keen of the New York Herald Tribune stumbled into a war council between five Mongolian princes and General Gregory Semenov and emerged to wireless his paper of a move to set up an independent state in Inner Mongolia...
...people outside of Asia know, or care, anything about Mongolia. It is underpopulated, isolated by great mountain ranges. Once an entity, it has been split up. Outer Mongolia, with Soviet help, became an independent Republic in 1924 and is still closely tied to Moscow. But fertile Inner Mongolia is still under Chinese rule. To break this rule is the task General Semenov and his willing Mongol allies have set themselves. That Japan was behind the movement, would dominate the new state if it was formed, not even the Mongol princes took the trouble to deny...
General Semenov said he wanted to make Inner Mongolia independent of both Soviet Russia and China, would make it "a haven of refuge for homeless White Russians." The five Mongols solemnly nodded their heads. Up went the general's Satanic mustachios. "I can provide 50,000 trained White Russians who have served in the Tsarist forces," said he. "The Mongolians can provide 100,000 trained cavalrymen...