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  Chiang Kai-shek, who was battling Mao Tse-tung for control of China at this time, offered P'u-Yi the chance to return to the Forbidden City under the Articles of Favorable Treatment if he would not accept the Japanese scheme. But P'u-Yi, who was bitter at Chiang because a renegade group of his soldiers had desecrated the Manchu ancestral tombs, refused the offer and became a Japanese pawn. They forced him to attend his coronation in a Japanese army officer's uniform; they made him bow before their gods; and they exploited Manchukuo to aid their invasion of China. To add to the humiliation, his consort Wen Hsiu left him; his wife had an affair with a palace guard and-upon banishment to her quarters-became an opium addict; his second wife died mysteriously; and his third wife, a Japanese-educated Manchurian, was foisted upon him by his "benefactors."

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