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...Puppetry. The Jap has long fought his great Oriental neighbor with three arms - military, economic and political. Political pressure he has exerted through puppets. The shadow regime of Henry Pu Yi set Manchurian Chinese apart from their southern countrymen. Similarly the regime of suave Wang Ching-wei, Japan's No. 1 puppet since March 1940, was designed to wean Chinese from allegiance to Chiang Kaishek. For three years the Mikado's generals stupidly sought to give Traitor Wang "face" without a pretense of authority. Chinese derided the puppet premier as "the prisoner of Nanking...
...siege of Hong Kong last January. Wu-wooers were relieved: they had feared that a fabulously Asiatic career had ended. The Butterfly's beauty and talent had moved her on & up 1) from the studio of a maker of obscene postcards, 2) to the arms of Henry Pu-yi, stooge ruler of Manchukuo, 3) to the arms of Marshal Chang Hsüeh-liang, onetime overlord of Manchuria. 4) to the position of No. 1 cinestar in China, 5) to Episcopalian marriage to wealthy Christian Vintner Eugene Penn of Shanghai...
...past the gnarled skeletons of bombed-out houses. Most of them, men & women, were in uniform. They shouted "Happy New Year!" to strangers half seen in the dark, and they sang She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain. The Yankee tune, with its words Anglicized to Hi-yi, yippee, yippee-eye, was the latest craze...
...agent named Lou Levy heard them, taught them a bouncy, Bronxy song. Bei Mir Bist Du Schön. The sisters recorded it for Decca, clicked at once. Since then Manager Levy has picked all their songs, sweet ones as well as cute ones like Beer Barrel Polka, I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, and Well All Right...
...thousand years. She was the one who fought off the Japanese invasions for centuries. thus, China was never menaced by samurai aggression until the latter part of the nineteenth century. In order to put an end to the chronic invasions of the hostile islanders, as early as 1591, Admiral Yi Soon-sin invented iron-clad warships. With them he annihilated the Japanese wooden fleet. From then on, Korea was at peace until...