Word: manchukuo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another remote spot on the map and invited Jews to move in to form an autonomous Jewish national province. The spot was Biro-Bidjan in farthest Siberia, a wild and fertile land of mountains and rivers, drained by the great Amur and separated only by that river from Manchukuo on the south and west...
...prefers the Browning, France uses the Hotchkiss extensively. So does Japan. To make him comfortable the Hotchkiss company keeps a special office for the Japanese military attaché near Paris on its private testing range. Most of last year's increased business was due to the campaign in Manchukuo...
From China last week came the photographic story of another war, †the Sino-Japanese quarrel over what is now Manchukuo. Compiled by Dr. Joseph Yu. head of Shanghai's Nantao Clinic, it presents 87 pages of war pictures which Dr. Yu took with a Brownie, seven pages of advertisements (venereal cures, toothpastes, virility drugs, sun lamps). Because doctors work behind the lines, there are no pictures of actual combat, many of the wounded. Sample caption, in English & Chinese: "The Wounded Receiving Eatables...
...Recognition of Manchukuo...
...observers could pour any meaning they chose. Most wiseacres interpreted them as a declaration by Japan that she was entertaining no thought of war with Soviet Russia, a hint by the U. S. that the State Department no longer maintains an attitude of outraged morality on Japanese occupation of Manchukuo...