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Spain, Czechoslovakia, Sweden and the Irish Free State promptly led an effort to arouse the conscience of the Great Powers. Each of the "Little Four" rejected Japan's excuse that she seized Manchuria in "self defense"; all scored Japan for setting up in Manchuria the puppet state of "Manchukuo"; all pledged their Governments never to recognize Manchukuo and all accused Japan of violating both the Nine-Power Treaty and the Covenant of the League...
Rebuffed by Dr. Maw, the Governor turned to two other Burmese leaders, U. Ba Pe and U Chit Hia, but both declined the role of puppet premier. In London the British Government saved its face temporarily by ignoring the question of Burma, urging the Conference to talk about India, particularly about the renowned inability of India's Hindus. Moslems and Sikhs to agree upon a system for their "communal representation" in the future Indian Parliament under the future Indian Constitution...
...squat in Yerovda Jail last week, "during His Majesty's pleasure." At the Conference in London sat no representative of Mr. Gandhi's Indian Nationalist Party and not even a Prince or Maharaja of importance. True, the Aga Khan was there but he is the merest British puppet and the head of no Indian state. The Labor Party of Great Britain declined, some weeks ago. to sit in at the Conference because the present British "National" (Conservative) Government has so obviously packed the Conference with Indian yes-men and nobodies...
...people who are pigeontoed, knock-kneed, potbellied, big-chinned, beak-nosed, toe-headed, frog-headed, pinheaded, mouse-faced, horse-faced, hawk-faced, hatchet-faced, and Huey-long-faced. I feel self-conscious when I look at my own wife and child. I worry as to what animalistic and puppet-istic characteristics I have...
...with the gold & silver Medallion of the Rising Sun (with 31 rays) and the Imperial Paulownia Blossom, an affair of precious cloisonné. That was easy. Everything was easy in Tokyo last week for slightly rheumatic Guest Hsieh Kai-shih, snuff-taking Foreign Minister of Japan's new puppet state Manchukuo...