Word: yi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...supply. Most costly evidence of the fact is the $1,175,000,000 of defaulted bonds outstanding which foreigners (Germany: 26.4%) owe U. S. investors. This week, however, the U. S. acquired a very competent specimen of the breed-a present from Adolf Hitler. He is Otto Jeidels (pronounced Yi-dels), a tall handsome man with a twinkle in his eye, who habitually talks so fast that no one else can get in a word. Before teller purged German banking he was only one size smaller than Hjalmar Schacht himself; now he is a partner of the Manhattan banking firm...
Died. Hsu Shih-chang, 81, onetime President of the Chinese Republic (1918-22); in Tientsin. Holder of many high offices under the last Manchu dynasty (finally Grand Guardian of Emperor Pu Yi), he was said to have been the only Chinese to receive both imperial and republican honors...
...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...
Miss Kawashima, who was 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...