Word: mongolians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joke v. Blow. Lacking though it is in humor, the Japanese Army knows that any joke can be answered by a sufficiently heavy blow. Last week the Japanese Army proper did not move, but Japanese sent 30,000 of their puppet Manchukuoan troops and Mongolian allies on a thundering raid from Chahar, northwest of Peiping, into Suiyuan. The invaders were equipped with tanks, armored cars and battle planes of Japanese manufacture. Actual news from this remote region was scant but early and Chinese-censored dispatches made world headlines thrilling to thousands of Chinese laundrymen and other expatriate Celestials: CHINESE DEFEAT...
...Yakichiro Suma hustled around to the Chinese Foreign Office to protest. With a face blandly childlike the Nationalist Foreign Minister, General Chang Chun, insisted that not only was there no truth in this story but that the Nationalist Government had sent a sharp note to Moscow protesting the Soviet-Mongolian agreement as a breach of Russia's 1924 pledge recognizing China's sovereignty over Outer Mongolia...
...eastward side of his countenance bears a less benevolent aspect, a grim eye watches Japan, and he asserts, "If Japan ventures to attack the Mongolian Republic . . . . we have to be able to help that republic." And so it goes. The Russians bluster and the Japanese cat fire, in a vein ridiculously similar to boastful statements from pugilistic training camps...
...both are fearful, neither wants an out and out trial of strength. The cause of the Mongolian difficulties cannot be dismissed with a pat all-explanatory word. Stalin's mechanical-toy enunciation of "capitalism" as the fundamental basis is, to put it mildly, nothing but arrant nonsense. The causes are fundamentally economic; the Soviet has goods to sell and exploitation schemes to promote, and so has Japan. Imperialism can not longer be associated, Marxist fashion, with so-called capitalist countries alone...
China's hard-pressed Premier, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, had more of his usual bad news last week. Japanese money and arms had induced Mongolian Prince Teh to proclaim an "independent" state in Inner Mongolia bordering the Chinese Great Wall. To the north Mongolian soldiers and Japanese planes forced the surrender of the Mongol city of Changpeh in Chahar Province, laid the groundwork for another independent State bordering the "Autonomous Government of North China" hatched last November by the Japanese Army (TIME. Dec. 2). As Japan chipped away at Generalissimo Chiang's China (see map) it became a matter...