Word: yi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...troops was set round the still incomplete Imperial City. In an open courtyard a few handpicked correspondents saw court dignitaries in dragon gowns and fur hats with jeweled buttons bow low to the ground before a stuffed dummy on a lacquered and jeweled ebony throne. Blinking, spectacled Henry Pu Yi was about to become Manchu Emperor of the new state of Ta Manchu Tikuo, until last week Manchukuo, until two years ago Manchuria...
...making no preparations for war with Russia.* We are out for peace. Our dispositions in Manchuria are merely aimed at fulfilling our treaty obligations to defend Manchukuo. The enthronement of Henry Pu Yi and the inauguration of an Empire in Manchuria will prove a stabilizing factor in the promotion of peace in the Orient. . . . The Japanese Army will not assist in any attempt to extend the territory of Manchukuo in any direction...
...rumor, current in highest Japanese circles last week, was that on March 1 the puppet ruler of Manchukuo, Mr. Henry Pu-yi, will be proclaimed Emperor, will surround himself with a Court largely composed of Chinese who served him when as the babe Hsuan Tung he sat on the Dragon Throne at Peking...
Until last week no Great Power had troubled to attack the puppet "Regency" of hollow-eyed Henry Pu Yi over what Japan calls the new state of Manchukuo...
...League of Nations' Opium Commission in Geneva. Pointedly ignoring the existence of any such state as "Manchukuo" and insisting that its territory is the rightful property of China, Mr. Fuller, while careful not to mention Japan by name, denounced the regime behind puppet Regent Henry Pu Yi for increasing the opium output of Manchukuo by every means and making it a centre for illicit dealing.in every form of homegrown and smuggled opium. Pamphlets dropped from airplanes, charged Mr. Fuller, instruct Manchukuo farmers in the best ways of growing opium. Stamped on the new money of Manchukuo, he sarcastically observed...