Word: manchukuo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese Eastern Railway (TIME, Feb. 12) had in all this only the Russians knew. Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Yurenev told Japan's Foreign Minister Koki Hirota that the Soviet Government was ready to "reconsider the invalidation of the bids by Japanese fishery interests." Thereupon Minister Hirota announced that "independent" Manchukuo and the Soviet Union may soon agree on a sale price for the Chinese Eastern...
Hsinking, Manchukuo, March 2 (UP)--Professor Bruce Hopper of Harvard University and his wife were visiting Manchukuo Thursday...
...concluded with these remarks about the United States policy during the last two years: "The United States is alone in her independent policy of non-recognition in Manchukuo; she has contributed nothing towards a settlement, but she has aroused considerable resentment in Japan. Our policy is worse than futile; it is rash...
...have quite definite information that the Japanese have put 130,000 men in Manchuria, plus 110,000 or 115,000 troops of the Manchukuo Army and 12,000 Russian White Guards. . . . We have barred our frontier with a lock of steel and concrete strong enough to resist the sharpest teeth. . . . We fear no comparison with an enemy in tanks and aviation...
...Passenger express trains run twice a week between Moscow and Vladivostok. The trip takes ten days. First class one-day fare (sleeper and diner) is about $300. Passengers from Moscow to China change at Manchouli to the Chinese Eastern which carries them to Changchun, capital of Manchukuo, where they take the South Manchuria or Peiping-Mukden line...