Word: shanghai
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three weeks later Japanese bombs were falling on the flimsy wooden hovels of Chapei, a section of Shanghai and 24,000 Chinese were killed or wounded in the ensuing holocaust. Once again Colonel Stimson tried to rally Britain by suggesting that the Nine-Power Treaty, guaranteeing the territorial integrity of China, which Japan had signed at Washington in 1922, be invoked. Once again Sir John Simon turned his back. The Japanese, undisturbed, made mince meat of the heroic Chinese 19th Route Army...
Three months after this third Neutrality Act, Japanese bombs were again bursting in Shanghai. Far from declaring war, however, the Japanese insisted they were waging peace. So far as the Neutrality Act was concerned, there was no war in China unless President Roosevelt proclaimed it. To date he has not done so, and Congress in general has not been disposed to criticize him for his failure...
...Twenty old U. S. residents of China released in Shanghai a survey of conditions in the nine Japanese-occupied Chinese cities of Nanking, Kaifeng, Suchow, Chinkiang, Canton, Soochow, Hangchow, Hankow and Tsinan. The cities' pre-war combined population of 5,800,000 had shrunk, they said, to 2,400,000. The Chinese puppet administrations were "weak, inefficient and corrupt," business was depressed, there was widespread unemployment, prostitution was rampant and narcotics were sold openly under Japanese auspices. Their conclusion: "The whole former trend of constructive development has been shattered, and devastation, chaos and oppression brought in a regime which...
From Hong Kong he went on to Shanghai, later to Japanese-conquered Hankow. The Japanese recognized him as a good catch for their puppet regime. With Wang Ching-wei signed up, Japan's military diplomats hoped that a new Chinese central government could be established this week, second anniversary of the war's outbreak...
...beer-bibbing, golf-playing Prince Fumitaka ("Butch") Konoye, 24, flunked out of Princeton (TIME, March 6), he expected to get what-for from his father, former Japanese Premier Fumimaro Konoye. The family's "face" was saved when Butch was appointed Dean of Japanese-sponsored Tung-wen College in Shanghai's French Concession. Last week, with flying colors, Butch passed an examination given by a conscription board and was admitted to the Japanese army...