Word: manchuria
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What Russia Gets. When the treaty was signed, Russian troops were pouring across Manchuria (which has more heavy industry than all the rest of China). Chinese Communist bands were moving to occupy key cities. Chungking, bowing to reality, made concessions...
...Contract. All around the vast perimeter of the territories about to be delivered from Japanese oppression, smaller dramas were being acted out. In Manchuria a Japanese officer told the Russians that "unconditional surrender" was not to be found in the Japanese vocabulary. In China, the delegate to Chihkiang euphemistically was careful not to use the expression, but called it "the contract ending this...
...days later the Japanese Commander in Chief in China, Lieut. General Yasuji Okamura, agreed to surrender all his sea, air and ground forces, from Manchuria's southern border to Formosa and northern Indo-China. Next day, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Central Government troops entered Nanking. They were back in China's capital just seven years, nine months and five days since they had been forced to leave the city to a brutal fate that shook the world...
...soon will China have internal stability? What industry will be left intact? (Can the steel mills and railway shops of Manchuria be operated immediately? How long will it take to harness the textile factories of coastal China, with their 5,000,000 spindles compared to the 300,000 in the hinterland?) How much aid-in technical advice, credits and materials-will come from...
Meng Chiang. The Japanese also dreamed of redeeming the strategic area for their Greater Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. In 1936, five years after the Japanese had overrun Manchuria, Prince Teh transferred his allegiance to Dai Nippon. Inner Mongolia became the federal state of Meng Chiang (Mongol Border Land), and Prince Teh found himself an exalted puppet...