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...Karelian Isthmus, plus a slice of Finland conquered in 1940, was set up as the Karelo-Finnish Republic, and the pattern of border buffer republics was complete. The land of the Great Russians, the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic, touches foreign territory only in the Far East, where the Amur River divides the R.S.F.S.R. from Japanese-held Manchuria. Between Russia proper and China lies the Mongolian People's Republic, a some-man's land, neither completely in nor quite out of the Soviet Union, but a buffer state just the same...
...vulnerable. If it were cut, the chief cities - Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, Komsomolsk-would be isolated. Further north two new lines are being rushed. Biggest industrial enterprise in the Far East is the Chapcherginsk Tin Combinat, which produces 65% of all Soviet tin. No. 1 industrial center is Komsomolsk, where the Amur Steel Works turn out more than 750,000 tons of finished steel products per year...
...friend to China in the past few years; Russian arms had helped to keep China fighting. Chinese realized last week that their own security depended on the resistance of Russian soldiers on the bloodstained field of Mos cow as well as in the windswept valley of Siberia's Amur River. If Germany "and Japan won, between them they might force any peace they wished on China...
...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...