Word: manchuria
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...Mihailovich" and "Quisling" at Kuomintang leaders. Izvestia has belittled T. V. Soong's administrative reforms. Bolshevik has praised Yenan's army and called Chiang's troops "passive spectators at best" in the fight against Japan. A Russian bestseller, Alexander Stepanov's novel Port Arthur, claimed Manchuria's key port as "Russian soil...
This understanding did not deter him from sanctifying the invasion of Manchuria in 1931, the invasion of North China in 1937, the blow at Pearl Harbor in 1941. The totalitarian forces which had shaped his state shaped his place in it. The westernized elder statesmen and their successors-men like Prince Konoye and Baron Hiranuma-were pushed into the background by swashbuckling generals and admirals, like Kenji Doihara, Hideki Tojo, Isozoku Yamamoto. Hirohito's most intimate counselors in the Imperial Household, nobles like the Marquis Kido, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, and ex-Grand Chamberlain Kantaro Suzuki...
...other interested Pacific nation had not yet revealed its plans. Russia may have 800.000 men along the borders of Manchuria. Russia's intentions were Russia's secret...
...long before Dec. 7, 1941, acquired 75% of its wealth, made it a "little Tokyo" in the Philippines and plastered big Tokyo with posters urging other Japs to settle there. Suspicious Manilans called it "Davao-kuo"-a somber reference to the process by which the Japs had moved into Manchuria, then renamed it Manchukuo...
Locked Cockpits. Now nearly all Jap air attacks are suicidal. Last week the Navy confirmed reports that the Japs were building a special Kamikaze plane, with a cockpit into which the pilot is locked before the takeoff. The plane (reportedly in production in Manchuria) is a pusher type, engine and propeller at the rear of the fuselage. Its torpedo-like nose carries a long ton (2,240 Ibs.) of explosive, fused to let go upon impact of nose or wings...