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Japanese courage and efficiency plus Chinese treachery and bungling made possible last week an epic and amazing relay race of conquest up the snow-swept mountains of Jehol and on to the Great Wall itself, upon which jubilant Japanese hoisted the flag of their puppet state Manchukuo...
...fluffy-haired Paul Hymans as President of the Assembly. It must vote, he said, on the recommendations of the League Committee of 19 (TIME, Feb. 27), recommendations which include withdrawal of Japanese troops from territory they have seized and nonrecognition by League countries of Japan's puppet state, "Manchukuo." Before a vote was taken Chinese Chief Delegate Dr. W. W. Yen accepted the recommendations with gusto, heard Japan's Matsuoka reject them with fierce eloquence: ''Manchuria belongs to us by right! Read your history. We recovered it from Russia! We made it what it is today...
...Emperor's Private Ambassador." Overshadowing all else in Chinese minds last week was the appalling question whether Japan would confine herself to Jehol (which she terms a renegade province of her puppet state, Manchukuo) or would hurl her armed might upon Tientsin, Peiping and other key cities of China proper...
...wife, in her way, was important. When the Japanese first set up the puppet State of Manchukuo they thought they had bribed War Lord Tang to come in with his Jehol and accept office as Vice Chairman of the Privy Council of Manchukuo. Later, when Tang seemed to cleave to China (TIME, Jan. 23), Japanese were mystified by his refusal of their bigger & better bribes. Why on earth should not Tang sell out? There must be some personal reason, the Japanese decided...
...very last, the Japanese hoped they could buy Jehol's Tang. Finally Japan's puppet Regent of Manchukuo, hollow-eyed Henry Pu Yi, denounced Tang as a "renegade," took away his empty title "Vice Chairman of the Privy Council of Manchukuo" and bestowed on the Japanese-Manchukuo forces advancing upon Jehol a splendidly euphemistic name: The Jehol Pacification Expeditionary Forces...