Word: manchuria
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...long as Soviet Russia is a one-party dictatorship, and Communist at that, the Republics cannot have truly independent policies, domestic or foreign. But Stalin may be leading them toward a vast federal sodality, with room for Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia in Europe, Manchuria and perhaps other lands in Asia. In such a union, any newcomers would want assurance that they could keep their international standing...
...Shanghai the Japs took over the light and power plant owned by American & Foreign Power Co., Inc. Recently the United Press in Chungking reported a rumor that the Japs now plan to dismantle the $20 million plant and haul it away to their stronghold in Manchuria...
...Fact. The Chinese Government asked Donald to establish a Bureau of Economic Information to gather the little-known facts about China and tell them to the Chinese and to the world. Donald did. In 1928, the Old Marshal, Chang Tso-lin, Warlord of Manchuria, uttered a frantic call for his services. Donald served him and, later, his son, Chang Hsueh-liang, until Chiang Kai-shek called him, soon after Japan invaded China...
...three Baltic states, the . . . administrations of Finland, Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary and Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia. If this process continues unchecked, we must, before this war ends, expect to see the Soviet Union set up further stooges in four more countries, namely, Austria, Slovakia, Iran and (why not?) Manchuria...
...Major General Claire Chennault nor the foe gave any hint where the Scorpions had their nest. But it was so remote that written communications with Chungking would take two weeks by devious routes through enemy lines. When not engaged in banging at enemy airfields or escorting Superfortresses returning from Manchuria, the Scorpions had a routine chore: shooting up locomotives on the Japs' tenuous north China railways. In two months their score...