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Japanese sweetness and light glinted in Southwest China this month in the optimistic person of General Kenji Doihara, bribe-brandishing chief of the Japanese Army spy service in Manchukuo (TIME, March 18). Last week the tubby but trig little advance agent for Japanese imperialism was back in Shanghai consuming highballs with correspondents and paying all the checks. Out over China's cables went his success story of delightful encounters with leading Southwest Chinese, such as Mr. Hu ("Hongkong Hu") Han-min, eminent apostle of the late, sainted Dr. Sun Yat-Sen "Father of the Chinese Revolution...
...Imperial Government never entirely recovered but they did always manage to hold the steel ribbons into furthest Asia which they had built, the Chinese Eastern Railway. Last week, to the shame of Soviet Russia, her rights over the C. E. R. were sold, or rather yielded to Manchukuo by Joseph Stalin for the insignificant sum of 140,000,000 Japanese paper yen ($39,200,000), plus an allowance of 30,000,000 yen ($8,400,000) to pay off Soviet railwaymen who now lose their jobs to Japanese and Manchukuans...
...cost over $400,000,000 some 30 years ago. Its net profit for 1933 was over $5,000,000 (before Roosevelt). Prior to Japanese interference in setting up the puppet Empire of Manchukuo, the C. E. R. earned $10,000,000 (before Roosevelt) yearly from 1924 to 1930. Thus the C. E. R. changed hands last week for less than five times its earnings in an average year, the worst bargain made by Soviet Russia since Lenin accepted the Peace of Brest-Litovsk...
...ever been strong enough, despite its present "World's Largest Army" (see p. 15), to outbluff, much less outfight, a resolute adversary like Japan. With boundless insolence the yellow men, as they bought Stalin's railway for a song last week, actually egged their puppet Emperor of Manchukuo to extend official recognition to the Grand Duke Cyril, pretender to the Throne of Russia. One more insult to Stalin & Co. came when Emperor Kang Te announced that while all Red Russian employes of the C. E. R. are to be fired, all its White Russian employes may keep their...
...terms of sale were initialed in Tokyo last week by Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Yurenev and a General Ting, so-called Minister from so-called Manchukuo. Actually the real buyer was Japan through her shrewd Foreign Minister Koki Hirota at whose home the initialing took place...