Word: manchukuo
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...gasoline to all Japanese busses, taxis, private automobiles; 2) setting up a special A.R.P. bureau in the Home Ministry and distributing instructions on how to combat incendiary bombs (at Vladivostok Russian planes are only 625 miles from wooden-housed industrial Japan); 3) concentrating men, tanks, planes, food, ammunition in Manchukuo...
...Japan were refused permission by Japanese authorities to go home. Large numbers of Japanese civilians left China, the Philippines, Australia, Singapore. In Indo-China, where there are reported to be up to 100,000 Japanese troops, bubonic plague had broken out. Large Japanese troop concentrations were being made on Manchukuo's Russian border. Japanese Minister to Washington Kaname Wakasugi had telephoned an interview from Los Angeles to Tokyo's Nichi Nichi, explaining to his countrymen that the U.S. meant business, warned them to be mighty careful...
...Peking, North China gate to Manchukuo, it was freely predicted that Japan would move against Siberia first...
...with Britain and the U.S. that would follow an attack on Singapore or the Indies, her most likely next move would seem to be on Thailand. Under pressure, the Government of Premier Luang Pitul Songgram granted Japan a 10,000,000-baht ($3,600,000) loan, recognized Manchukuo as a token of friendship. (It was carefully explained that the recognition of Manchukuo had been chosen as a lesser evil than recognizing Puppet Wang Ching-wei at Nanking.) Japan continued pressing demands-demands which, if accepted, could end only in the capitulation of Thailand...
...general and sent to command the Japanese forces in Korea. Mummy-faced General Itagaki ("I have often been likened to a corpse on reprieve") is the idol of the younger, Fascist-minded Army faction, is credited with originating the North China buffer state plan, which he carried out in Manchukuo. An attempt to carve another buffer state out of the Maritime Province of Siberia might well begin with an offensive from Korea...