Word: manchukuoans
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...satisfied with having seen 131 of their bombers and fighters mowed down by an enemy that lost only eight planes, foolhardy Soviet Mongolian aviators again dared to violate Manchukuoan territory one day last week. Over the border they roared, 60 strong; up to meet them climbed three spunky Japanese fighters. Machine guns rattled and sheepherders in the Lake Bor district scurried for shelter as flaming Communist planes filled the sky. In a few minutes it was all over, and a pitiful remnant of the Red raiders was tailing for home...
...Asia, trouble in Asia did not compound the immediate chances for World War No. 2 in Europe. As Far Eastern member of the anti-Comintern alliance, Japan is most useful to her German and Italian partners when she feels free to challenge Soviet Russia along the Siberian-Manchukuoan border. She is most menacing to Britain and France when she is poised as a free-wheeling threat to Singapore, French Indo-China, The Netherlands Indies. From 1935 to 1937 Japan was useful to the blackmail schemes of the Rome-Berlin dictators. After the war began, with a claimed...
...Cass Gilbert. Frank Lloyd Wright took him to Tokyo in 1919 to help build the Imperial Hotel. Raymond stayed there, became Japan's foremost modern builder. He employed as many as 100 men in his Tokyo office, did 600 jobs, including the U. S., French, Soviet. Belgian and Manchukuoan embassy buildings...
Russia's birth rate is artificially stimulated by long northern nights, a ban on abortions (abortion was legal in Russia from 1920-36) and cash prizes for prolific mothers. Her death rate is artificially stimulated by purges, famines and Manchukuoan border incidents. What the balance is will now be determined.* Dictator Stalin believes that there are 3,500,000 new Russians every year. Sent out last week to verify this were 400,000 census takers, armed with 16 questions apiece, conveyed by reindeer, camels, sleds cars, airplanes...
There the matter was left, with the U. S. firmly refusing to recognize Japan's conquest of China (her Manchukuoan conquest is still unrecognized, too). Japan may still do as she likes since the U. S. is too far away to interfere, but until Japan behaves like a civilized state and makes lawful, orderly proposals, the U. S. will lot condone her behavior...