Word: puppets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Japanese set up their puppet Manchurian state called "Manchoukuo" (TIME, March 21), they claimed that General Tang brought his vast, wild territory into the new state at that time. More recently General Tang has shown a disposition to consider himself loyal to the Chinese Government represented in Peiping by young Marshal Chang...
...Copies of the Constitution of the State set up by Japan in Manchuria were released last week. In form the new Government is an autocracy or dictatorship, absolute power being vested in Japan's puppet, the former Chinese "Boy Emperor" Hsuan Tung ("Mr. Henry Pu Yi"). He acts, according to the Constitution, upon the advice of his chief councilors, all Japanese...
...serious resistance to Japanese occupation of Manchuria, General Ma swore to defend Tsitsihar "to the Death." He received thousands of dollars cabled to him by patriotic Chinese from all over the world. Then he fled before the Japanese advance and turned up as War Minister of "Independent Manchuria," the puppet state set up by Japan (TIME, March 21). Last week War Minister Ma did not send his telegram from Changchun, the puppet capital of Independent Manchuria. Instead he traveled to the remote Manchurian frontier city of Taheiho, just across the Amur River from Soviet Russia. There, with a fine disregard...
...lands were recovered. ... By temporarily mingling with the Japanese, letting it appear that I had deserted my fatherland, I laid plans to recover our lost territory from Japan. During more than 40 days of contact with the Japanese I witnessed the events leading to the installation of the Japanese puppet government . . . and learned all their secret plans for the annexation of Manchuria...
When Laborites shouted that everyone knew Japan has set up a puppet regime in Manchuria, lawyerlike Sir John softly replied, "That may be so, but nobody is entitled to say so except on the principle that one is at liberty to pronounce judgment without waiting for an investigation and in the face of the denial of one of the parties...