Word: manchukuo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Warriors Forward. Gradually the military, and especially the Army extremists, made headway. In 1931 the Kwantung Army fomented the Manchurian Incident which led to the puppet state of Manchukuo. In 1936 the military got credit for the anti-Comintern Pact with Ger many. In 1937 the Army saved the Navy's disastrous Shanghai landing party. And for a while the Army's prestige skyrocketed with the China war, which later led to the longest stalemate in modern history...
...confronted with various international difficulties in November, 1935, are steadily preparing for war." Apparently the Kwantung Army had cooked up an "incident" for November 1935. General Tojo was obliged to state that he had really meant "the general period of 1935-36." Shortly he was sent to Manchukuo with the Kwantung Army, where he redeemed himself by becoming the Man Friday of that Army's blustering leaders, Generals Juzo Nishio and Seishiro Itagaki. For them he ran a Gestapo, checking up on the Army's loyalties. He was said to have agents scattered from the remote frontiers...
...southern German drive toward Rostov-on-Don; Stalingrad, on the lower Volga and only 260 miles farther east, was threatened by it; and Staliniri and Stalinissi, in Georgia, might be cut off with the rest of the Caucasus by this same drive. Stalinsk, in the Far East near Manchukuo, would probably fall if the Japanese moved. This left only Stalinabad, southeast of Samarkand, and another Stalinsk, a new industrial city in what might be the new Russia-Central Siberia...
Japan began feeling out Russian defenses along the 1,800-mile Manchukuo-Siberian border. Small frontier clashes sputtered all week. Having made an issue of Soviet mines laid in the Japan Sea, Japan claimed they were illegal floating mines, that two Japanese fishing boats had been sunk by them. Anticipating the enlargement of this or some other issue, Russia's Ambassador to Tokyo Constantin Smetanin sent his and other Soviet embassy wives home to the U.S.S.R...
...only 6,541,000; but last week crop experts foresaw a harvested soybean crop of 110,000,000 bushels-plus perhaps as much again that will be plowed under as fertilizer, used as pasturage, cured as hay or stored as silage. Next year the U.S. may well overtake Manchukuo (140,000,000 bu.) as the No. 2 soybean producer on earth, surpassed only by giant China...