Word: yi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Purely a Japanese setup, this new state with its "government" of heavily bribed Chinese Generals still proposed last week to set up its capital at Changchun; and weak-eyed Mr. Henry Pu Yi (ex-Emperor of China) was still to be "Head of the Great Union." But nobody knew (after three weeks of Japanese indecision) whether it would be a Republic or a Monarchy...
Chances were not too bright last week for Mr. Henry Pu Yi, former Emperor of China, who aspires to be Emperor of Manchuria. But Tokyo conceded that this weak young man with extremely weak eyes still has a chance to be chosen as Japan's Imperial Puppet. Furthermore, his proud Manchu mother, the daughter-in-law of his famed & terrible grandmother, the last real Empress Dowager, died last week...
...protected by Japan and headed by Chinese General Yuan Chin-kai last week proclaimed "severance of relations" between the three Manchurian provinces and the rest of China. Lest Japan set up the ex-Emperor of China as a puppet ruler of Manchuria, a Chinese patriot sent "Emperor" Henry Pu Yi a basket of fruit containing a bomb. Henry took the basket, thanked his Heavenly Ancestors for their protection when the bomb did not explode...
Japanese may place Mr. Henry Pu Yi on the Throne of Manchuria, if the Japanese succeed in inducing Manchuria to secede from China. But the Japanese Government will have no official part in doings so highhanded. In Tokyo last week a Government spokesman told Japanese reporters that Imperial Henry is "in danger of being kidnapped [from his home in the Japanese concession at Tientsin] by Chinese who are resolved to make him Emperor of Manchuria...