"What Men!"

Hot against the coronation of Japan's Manchu puppet as Emperor of Manchukuo was its onetime ruler the Chinese "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang.

Back in Shanghai from Europe, to which he retired after Japan ousted him from what is now Manchukuo (TIME, March 20) Young Chang last week cried, "I cannot praise too highly Mussolini and Hitler. What men! I am only a small man now. The Chinese people will not like this cor onation. They have never liked the idea of a crowned ruler since the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty. Had my own father. Marshal Chang Tso-lin, been crowned I should have wanted to kill him!"

Famed "Old Marshal" Chang began life as a coolie, made himself the uncrowned War Lord of what is now Manchukuo, had himself scores of wives, reveled in opium, drank hot tigers' blood in the belief that it kept his vitals active, played Japan's game for years and when he ceased to do so was dynamited in his private railway car (TIME, June 11, 1928).

Young Chang, who openly accuses the Japanese Government of contriving Old Chang's death, set himself up at Shanghai last week in a "modern Chinese house'' full of Grand Rapids furniture and hand-painted cuspidors. He said he had returned to China at the "urgent invitation" of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek who was expected to appoint him to some Government post.

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