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...Shiggy," as U.S. newsmen dubbed him, clattered rapidly up the diplomatic ladder. He established himself as an authority on Chinese affairs, furthered Japan's encroachment upon China. Later he became Ambassador to Moscow, where he negotiated a settlement of a famous Russo-Japanese border clash at Changkufeng Hill in 1938. As Ambassador to London he made many acquaintances, managed to convey the useful impression that he was opposed to Japan's militarists. In 1941 he became Ambassador to Nanking, where he inaugurated Japan's recent policy of buttering up the puppet government (TIME, April...
...including some "Little Berthas" and fresh troops from Siberia and the Caucasus, trained for bitter-weather fighting. To launch his new offensive he sent 38-year-old General Gregory Stern, who until recently was commander of Soviet forces in the Far East, gave the Japanese a good trouncing at Changkufeng. (His grocer brother Morris, unearthed in a Los Angeles suburb last week, said: "I don't like it. Finland is a democratic country. Why don't they leave her alone...
...wondered whether Comrade Stalin was not taking a leaf from the Hitler notebook when there was summoned to meet on May 25 the U.S.S.R. Parliament, the All-Union Congress of Soviets. Last time the Congress met was last August during the fighting between Japan and the Soviet Union at Changkufeng...
What hundreds of Soviet soldiers, tanks and heavy guns were unable to do ten weeks ago-drive the Japanese off bleak & barren Changkufeng hill on the Siberian-Manchukuoan border-September's floods accomplished. Last week travelers from Manchukuo reported that Russian troops, after Japanese retired before the flood, planted their red flag atop the hill and began to pit it with fortifications...
Strangest feature of the Changkufeng affair to Russian and outside observers was that during and after the border battles Russian press comment omitted all mention of the Soviet's famed "Red Napoleon," Marshal Vasily Bluecher, Commander in Chief of the Far Eastern Army. One yellow newsman, the Japanese Domei agency's Ihacha Hagueno, dared to flash the flat statement that Marshal Bluecher had been arrested. In retaliation, Soviet secret police pounced on Hagueno's Russian woman translator and clamped her into jail. Promptly Japanese newsorgans announced that Marshal Bluecher had been not only arrested but had committed...