Word: te
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last Saturday night they dined at the Soviet Embassy. At table, the Chief Justice, in excellent form, chatted volubly with Mme Troyanovsky. Afterwards he had a more serious tête-á-tête with one of the guests, Senator Tom Connally (an opponent of the President's Court plan...
Soviet newspaper readers last week were bug-eyed at a trial in Manchukuo which seemed to them as deliberate a miscarriage of justice as the Moscow Old Bolsheviks Trials must have seemed to Manchukuoan Emperor Kang Te, Japan's bland puppet. To Red Russians there is nowhere a more detestable body of men than the "White Guards" in Manchukuo, a group of ex-Tsarist soldiers, aristocrats and riff-raff who live just outside the Soviet Union border, expecting momentarily and scheming year after year for "the collapse of Bolshevism...
...went Red and who did not. Geographically, there was interposed between China's migratory Red State and Soviet territory in Siberia and Outer Mongolia last week: 1) Japanese-dominated Manchukuo; 2) Japan's sphere of influence in North China; 3) the nomadic Mongols under famed Prince Te who openly exacts regular bribes from both Nanking and Tokyo (TIME, March 23 et ante), but seems in the depths of his complex character to be anti-Red. Just over the Soviet frontier is the Bolshevik Far Eastern Army under able General Vasily Constantinovich Blucher. In 1924-27, Comrade Blucher, under...
...Rumanian Carol's visit Czechoslovakian Prague was en fête. Triumphal arches had been erected in the main streets which were decorated with flags and evergreen. Prague's electric works reduced their rates by 35% to insure that the city's illuminations should blaze far into the night. Cardinal Kaspar, head of the Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia, went so far as to permit his Czech flock to eat meat all day Friday. Nothing was lacking to make the reception the sort that Carol most enjoys. There were champagne banquets, boy scouts, a gala opera, hordes...
...Peiping last week girlish hearts fluttered fast as news went round that an envoy of 30-year-old Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo, formerly known as Henry Pu Yi ("Boy Emperor of China"), had arrived from Hsinking, the Manchukuan capital, to inspect 100 "most beautiful and healthy girls between the ages of 15 and 20," who had been assembled by Chinese marriage brokers of renown and unblemished reputation. The envoy was performing this agreeable duty because the Emperor, whose present union with the beautiful Empress Peng Chi has not been blessed, is looking for one or more sturdy concubines...