Word: manchukuo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Across 1,000 miles of Asia's bandit-infested "Wild East" stretches the Chinese Eastern Railway, spanning Japan's puppet state of Manchukuo from frontier to frontier and serving as a short-cut for the Trans-Siberian Line between Moscow and Vladivostok. Japan has had a wolfish eye on C. E. R. ever since it was built by Imperial Russia, which retained a half interest in the road. This half interest Soviet Ambassador Yurenev offered last year to sell for 250,000,000 gold rubles (then $168,000,000). Japan insisted that the nominal buyer must be Manchukuo...
Moscow papers clamored all week that Japanese troops in Manchukuo have been deliberately permitting and encouraging bandits to attack the Chinese Eastern in an effort "thus to force the Soviet Union to sell the road for a song." Pravda, official organ of the Russian Communist Party, headlined Blackmailers Won't Stop...
...support their charges Soviet editors produced the latest operating report of Comrade Julius Rudy, manager of C. E. R.. to the joint Soviet-Manchukuo Board of Directors. Fearing that Japanese might intercept his report, Manager Rudy carried it personally onto Soviet soil at Khabarovsk, proclaimed the following list of "Wild East" outrages on his line since...
Arriving at Harbin, the jumping off place for Manchukuo pioneer homesteaders, Mr. Nakaoka tut-tutted the idea that among the Japanese homesteaders he will enjoy any special prestige or influence because he was the very first person ever to assassinate a Japanese Premier, polishing off Premier Hara in 1921 for the now fashionable reason that he was "spineless...
...Emperor Rang Teh (Henry Pu-Yi) of _ Manchukuo. Manhattan's Painter-Philosopher-Mystic Nicholas Konstantin Roerich found a new Head of State upon whom to bestow the Roerich Museum's insignia, first class. Reason: Manchukuo's contribution to world culture...