Word: manchuria
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This is an extraordinary and encouraging sign. Usually each side has sought to beat the other to the punch by releasing the in formation with which to defend itself against the breakdowns which marked each former fruitless session." Cooperation from the North. Russians in Manchuria waited for representatives of the Chinese Central Government...
...opened Japan to the world, the feudal Japanese learned fast from the West. But their lesson was one-sided, their rise deceptively easy. First, they beat the Chinese, and then they drubbed the Russians. They got in on the right side in World War I. They grabbed Manchuria, and in 1937 they again attacked China, hoping to dominate all Asia. Just after Pearl Harbor, Japan careened to its highest point...
...Manchuria and elsewhere Russian forces bagged more than a half million Japanese troops. Soviet troops completed their occupation of the fog-bound Kuril Islands. In Moscow Stalin said the Kurils and the southern half of Sakhalin island would again become Russian territory...
Meanwhile, the Generalissimo carried on the business of his Government. He approved arrangements for the formal surrender of Japanese forces in China, to take place this week at Nanking. He appointed an old Kuomintang crony, General Hsiung Shih-hui, to take over Manchuria from the Red Army. He exchanged felicitations with Generalissimo Joseph Stalin over the ratification of the new Sino-Russian treaty...
...Americans came to Korea (then known as the Hermit Kingdom) in 1882, signed a Treaty of Amity and Commerce, built the country's first trolley line, rail way and waterworks. The Japanese, after defeating Russia in 1904-05, made Korea their colony and highroad to Manchuria. They gave it modern transport, developed its mines, exploited its farms, opened Shinto shrines...