Word: manchuria
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...retorted: "What Chiang means, in a nutshell, is 'Countrymen, prepare for slaughter; it is all for your own good.'" The Communist answer: a "mobilization" call (for an army of 1,000,000 regulars, 2,000,000 guerrillas) and announcement of a "provisional supreme administration for democratic [Communist] Manchuria...
Joseph Berry Keenan, Chief Prosecutor of the Tokyo Tribunal, thought Pu-yi might give evidence of Jap crimes in Manchuria. The Russians, who have held Henry incommunicado since last August, produced him only on condition that he remain under Soviet control while in Japan. From Atsugi they took Henry to a modest house next to the Russian Embassy in Tokyo, where they would have a chance to help him prepare his evidence...
...expected Henry to speak his own mind. In childhood he was a puppet of warlords scheming to restore monarchy in China. When he grew up he became a puppet of the Japs, for whom he "ruled" conquered Manchuria. Only once in his 40-year lifetime had Henry Pu-yi ever used his own initiative: at 16, he cut off his own queue when his eunuch barber refused to commit such a sacrilege...
...erstwhile Japanese prisoners that the Maryknollers chose last week as their new superior general. He is the Most Rev. Raymond A. Lane, 52, since 1940 Bishop of Fushun, Manchuria. A slender, freckled man with thinning red hair, he was born in Lawrence, Mass., turned down a chance for West Point, and turned away from business (with the Liggett drug chain) to become a priest...
...Northwest will fly the great circle route from New York, Chicago and Seattle via Alaska to Tokyo, Shanghai, Manila and points in eastern China, and in Manchuria, Russia volente...