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...Emperor Rang Teh (Henry Pu-Yi) of _ Manchukuo. Manhattan's Painter-Philosopher-Mystic Nicholas Konstantin Roerich found a new Head of State upon whom to bestow the Roerich Museum's insignia, first class. Reason: Manchukuo's contribution to world culture...
...bitter whistling wind on the plains outside Hsinking, owl-eyed Henry Pu Yi announced to his ancestors on March 1 that he was about to become Emperor Kang Teh of Manchukuo. Later that day he buttoned himself into a Field Marshal's uniform and ascended his throne. Japan, which was the first and, so far as the world knew until last week, the last power to recognize his puppet government (TIME, Sept. 26, 1932), sent official congratulations. The League of Nations did not dare punish Japan directly for its invasion of Manchuria, but on the strength of the Lytton...
...Century hunting lodge of the old Manchu Emperors of China, spread over the hills outside Jehol City. By last week it was still overgrown with weeds but Japan planned to make it fresh and new to remind Manchukuans of the ancestral glories of their puppet Emperor Kang Teh (Pu Yi...
...Yi did not remember the hunting lodge. His benefactress, the great Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, had fled there as a young mother with her cowardly, dying Emperor, in 1860, when British and French troops marched on Peking. When Revolution blew Pu Yi, a six-year-old boy, off the throne of the Manchus in 1912, he was locked in the Winter Palace at Peiping. He did not enjoy Manchu pomp, preferred his tennis court and bicycle...
...three coups d'etat to do it. She put one nephew, aged five, on the throne and later took him off when, grown up and turned reformer, he bought a Bible and a globe. Another nephew she married to the daughter of her girlhood love, thus producing Pu Yi whom she made Emperor at two. She floated a foreign loan for naval construction and put it into a fantastic marble pleasure boat that grounded in her lily pond. She sent the fanatic Boxers (Righteous Harmony Fists) against the Christian missionaries, stopped the massacres to make a sketch...