Word: teh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short-wave broadcast from Tokyo last week reported new conflict: Some fighting in Kansu Province, Communist demands for more Central Government funds, a conference of Communist leaders at Yenan headed by the second-in-command, Chu Teh, to discuss the contingency of open warfare with Chungking...
...Kwantung Army, is a law unto itself. In 1931, when it decided Manchuria was ripe for plucking, it manufactured the "Mukden Incident" and marched in from Korea, much to the surprise of the Tokyo Government. In Manchukuo it runs the whole show, bossing the Government of Emperor Kang Teh (Henry Pu Yi) and owning or controlling every major industry. Many Kwantung officers deplore the Japanese invasion of western China, believe that the destruction of the Russian menace that hangs forever over Japan's head should be the most important item on the Japanese agenda...
Chiang nursed his hold over the Yangtze valley, but patriotic Chinese intellectuals distrusted him. His only "offensive" gestures were made against the Chinese "Reds" of the southeastern province of Kiangsi, inner lair of the famed and capable Chinese Soviet generals, Mao Tse-tung and Chu Teh, whose "communism" amounts to little more than a Populistic desire to give land to the tax-gutted and landlord-ridden Chinese peasant. Counting on Chiang's willingness to let the great granary of North China go, the Japanese Minister of War, General Hajime Sugiyama gave his underlings the green light signal without first...
...member of the Army's radical Kwantung Clique, who conquered and now rules Manchukuo; the fabulously rich men who own the Houses of Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Yasuda and Okura, firms that control 62% of the total wealth of Japan (Mr. Gunther calls them "Men of Yen") ; Emperor Kang Teh (formerly Henry Pu-yi) of Manchukuo, "least consequential monarch on earth...
...fond of men's clothes and men's sports, took for her first victim her husband, Prince Fan Chulchab of Outer Mongolia, whose Soviet connections she promptly betrayed to Japanese officers in Dairen. She was credited with inducing Henry Pu-yi to become the Emperor Kang Teh of Manchukuo, with having fought alongside Japanese troops in their 1933 campaign in Jehol. After this campaign, in which she was supposed to have been wounded, she conferred an honor on herself, called herself the "Joan of Arc of Jehol...