Word: manchuria
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...wanted: Stalin's definite pledge to come in on a definite date (August 15, said the best available sources). Now, whatever the political implications to be faced later in Asia, the U.S. armies would not have to help the Chinese dispose of Japan's formidable forces in Manchuria, and Japan's last chance to prolong the war had disappeared...
Russia's Red Banner armies, driving into Manchuria, strengthened Russia's hand, and weakened China's, in the coming game for Asia. President Truman, welcoming the blow, preferred to think later of the later game. He concentrated on Tokyo...
...Threat. On the mainland of Far Eastern Asia, another war had begun as the old one was ending. For 16 years, the Russians had kept an army poised along their Siberian frontier facing Manchuria, had blooded it in border clashes with the Japs' well-trained, ill-famed Kwantung Army...
Yamada's army proved to have few aircraft, and no worth-while outer defenses. Whether the Kwantung Army, long expert at saber-rattling, had decided to put up or shut up, the Russians had already approached strategic points in Manchuria...
...Manchukuo (the three provinces of Manchuria with Jehol added) was the well-trained Kwantung Army*(see THE WAR). Its known 900,000 (600,000 Japs and 300,000 puppet troops) had probably been increased to 1,000,000 by recent arrivals from China proper. Allied statesmen had long feared that the Kwantung Army would fight on, even after the home islands were conquered, had hoped that direct orders from the Emperor would persuade it to lay down its arms...