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Soviet Russia's contribution to the problem of what to do with the world's spare Jews is to transplant them to virgin soil in the Soviet Republic of Biro-Bidjan, insulating the Trans-Siberian Railroad from Japan's puppet State of Manchukuo. In the event of Russo-Japanese hostilities Biro-Bidjan will be "the Jewish Belgium," and smart Bolsheviks count on world publicity for "Japanese Atrocities" in Biro-Bidjan...
...puppet Empire of Manchukuo, with the Japanese. Army jerking the strings, last week hurled fast-moving military detachments into Inner Mongolia and seized its capital, Pailingmiao. Apparently this was done with the bribe-bought co-operation of one of the last Celestials to wear the ancient Chinese pigtail, famed Prince Te. His Highness is the blandest foe of Soviet Russian influence, in Inner and Outer Mongolia. In effect the seizure of Pailingmiao, jabbed the Japanese spearhead 200 miles nearer to an ultimate clash with the Red Army of Joseph Stalin for the mastery of Eastern Asia...
...undeclared war was on the frontier at which a world conflict between East and West can begin any day. Therefore this week the Mongols, their Soviet patrons and their Japanese foes emerged into sudden and major importance (see pp. 24 & 25). Involved are four nations: Japan, Russia, China, Manchukuo, and a fifth-Germany. In Moscow today Soviet official wrath is directed equally at Tokyo and at Berlin. Russia fears she is going to feel German and Japanese pincers pricking the Soviet union on both flanks. That ink is newly dry on a Japanese-German secret treaty of military alliance...
...defeated famed General Ma and set up the Manchu Emperor (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931 et seq.). Relations Ruptured- In jittery fear lest Eastern Asia be plunged into a great war by the fighting begun last week, the more prosperous subjects of His Imperial Majesty Kang Te hastily fled from Manchukuo this week to China until all transport facilities were crushingly overtaxed. In Harbin, the Russian metropolis of Manchukuo. which teems with both White Russians and Red, furious quarreling raged between Japanese-Manchu officials and Soviet Consul General Mikhail Slavutsky. He refused their demand that 108 Manchu troops who recently mutinied...
...Manchukuo, which has thus far been recognized only by Japan and El Salvador, this abrupt exit was almost equivalent to "breaking off diplomatic relations"'-the traditional prelude to war. In the capital of Manchukuo, snow-bound Hsinking, the Japanese-directed government of Emperor Kang Te branded the fighting last week as "undeclared war" and seemed ready to fight at 30° below zero. In Tokyo, which was digging out from a record snowfall of twelve inches, the temperature was warmer last week than in Hsinking, but cooler-headed was the Japanese Government than the Government of Manchukuo. Japanese bluff...