Word: manchuria
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...blockade of Japan was on in earnest. Their fat southern empire cut off and written off, the Japanese were trying feverishly to stockpile the home islands against invasion day with raw materials from North China, Manchuria and Korea. U.S. analysts concluded last week that Japan now had only a single unbroken line of communication with the mainland -the one from northeastern Korean ports, across the Sea of Japan, to small ports on the northwest coast of Honshu. The great funnel through which the lifeblood of imports was once transfused into Japan was already fouled with wrecked ships sunk...
...force on China the 21 demands which would have made China a vassal state. Four years later a group of four white men sitting at Versailles took Shantung, the sacred province of China, and tried to award it to Japan. Japan invaded that province again in 1927, took Manchuria in 1931, and bit off three other pieces of Chinese territory in the next six years before starting full-scale war in 1937. In addition, several other nations were meddling in China's affairs, trying to prevent her achieving real unity and strength. Naturally the Chinese were not able...
...Japs got nothing at all out of the great land route won at such tremendous cost in life and energy; the line that was supposed to form an invulnerable channel from the resources of the South Seas to the arsenals of Manchuria carried during six months' existence not a single ton of rubber or petroleum, not a single important troop movement...
...Questions. Meanwhile the enemy would bolster his inner fortress, comprising Japan proper, Korea, Manchuria and North China. Two questions stood out: 1) how much of North China would Japan try to hold? and 2) how far would the enemy's altered strategy dictate revisions in Allied strategy...
...hold together the pieces of China's political puzzle fail to be aware of the political pattern which Russia had imposed on Eastern Europe in the course of its liberation. To them the threat of a bloc of Soviet-dominated buffer states, torn from China, and extending from Manchuria to Sinkiang (see map) was very real. Should their fears be realized, a climacteric change would have taken place in the pattern of contemporary history...