Word: amur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japan was pleased. In Tokyo, Prince Fumimaro Konoye sat with his new and venturesome military Cabinet, without the embarrassing presence of Yosuke Matsuoka, who had guessed wrong about German-Soviet relations. In Russia the bulk of the Red Army was anchored a comfortable 4,500 miles away from the Amur River and Vladivostok. Hitler's public-address system in Vichy had been tested, echoed his every word with admirable fidelity. Steaming south, somewhere in the China Sea, were warships of Japan's Fleet, transports of Japan's Army, all provided with good charts of the Indo-China...
...secret societies. With fronts as dignified as chapters of the D. A. R., these organizations operate behind the scenes with a brutal fanaticism which the Ku Klux Klan never equaled. The master society, which Toyama founded, is called the Black Dragon Society, significantly after Chinese ideographs for the Amur River, between Manchukuo and Russia. Affiliated with it in various ways are groups with such names as the Jimmu Society (after Japan's first Emperor), the National Foundation Society, the Spirited World Society, the Native Land Loving School...