Word: manchukuo
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...times since the Sino-Japanese War began, and each time had managed to draw Japanese strength away from the attack on China. As Japan bogged deeper in the China Incident she grew less & less antagonistic toward Russia, and lately the Japanese have been downright friendly. Last month the old Manchukuo-Outer Mongolia frontier dispute was settled with considerable backing-down by Japan. Last week that part of the Japanese press which is closest to the Foreign Office began making fresh overtures...
...tacitly understood boundaries of Greater East Asia include Japan, Manchukuo, Inner Mongolia, China, French Indo-China, Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, The Netherlands East Indies. The next step, about which many young Japanese speak frankly, is to delete the word East: establish Japanese hegemony over Greater Asia, meaning the Philippines, Burma, India, Australia. The strategic problem of attaining the first of these objectives appears on the map which occupies the following two pages...
...rubber needs (42,000 tons last year) are minuscule alongside the U. S.'s (575,000 tons). But U. S. rubber importers, irked by weeks of being over bid, do not think Japan is buying for Japanese consumption. They guess that Japan, shipping the rubber across Manchukuo and Russia, has become Germany's purchasing agent. Germany, with all her substitutes, still needs 100,000 tons or more of natural rubber a year under war conditions...
...Japanese signed a new pact concerning that Russo-Japanese running sore, the Manchukuo-Outer Mongolian border; Suma spoke of "concessions and compromises"-eminently worthwhile since the agreement left Japan free for southern adventures. The Tokyo Nichi Nichi reported 2,000 British troops had landed in The Netherlands Indies; Suma viewed this with "extreme gravity." British Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie and Tani signed an agreement on the longstanding Tientsin silver dispute; Tani did not publicly comment on the obvious inference that Japan has helpless Britain where she wants her. A treaty of friendship was signed with Thailand (Siam); Suma said...
Almost as shocking to U. S. citizens would be an announcement that the U. S. and Japan were making up (see p. 39). Ostensibly on an independent mission, retired Major General John F. O'Ryan set off for a fact-finding survey of Japan, Manchukuo and conquered North China...