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...between was the veteran Manchurian barrister, Mo Teh-hui, 64, one of the negotiators of the Sino-Soviet pact of last August. Mo spent six days with the Young Marshal at Tung-tse, in Kweichow, "by the side of a beautiful lake." On his return he reported...
Russian power stopped at the Khalka River, which divides Outer from Inner Mongolia. Led by young Prince Teh, the Inner Mongolians remained unregenerately separate, tribal, lama-ridden and unso-vietized. In return for 50,000 silver dollars monthly, they owned a tenuous allegiance to the Chinese Republic. But in Outer Mongolian eyes, Inner Mongolia was an area for future redemption...
Meng Chiang. The Japanese also dreamed of redeeming the strategic area for their Greater Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. In 1936, five years after the Japanese had overrun Manchuria, Prince Teh transferred his allegiance to Dai Nippon. Inner Mongolia became the federal state of Meng Chiang (Mongol Border Land), and Prince Teh found himself an exalted puppet...
Across the Khalka River armed Russia and armed Japan glared in hatred, waiting for the day when one would push the other from the steppes of central Asia and win the key region for dominating northern China. Meanwhile the Japanese installed Prince Teh in an old, tile-roofed, Mongol palace at Inner Mongolia's metropolis, Koko Hoto (pop. 120,000)-the "Blue City," so called because from a distance a bluish haze veils...
...Prince Teh really preferred the primitive pleasures of his country home at West Sunit, deep in the steppe. There he forgot the cares of state, frolicked with his two children, took airplane rides, wrestled (the chief Mongolian recreation) with old cronies, played the guitar and sang old songs of the glorious days when his forebears ruled Europe as far as the Oder and Danube Rivers and Asia from Bagdad to Burma...