Word: manchuria
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...Mark Gayn's earliest memories is of a file of Chinese soldiers marching past his father's house in Manchuria. Civilians marching with them carried long poles from which swung a row of decapitated heads. Gayn also remembers (when he was seven) huddling with his mother on the floor while Chinese bandits' bullets whistled through the windows...
Author Gayn's father was a Russian lumberman. Most of Gayn's childhood was spent at sawmill settlements, mostly on the Manchuria-Mongolia border. Some of his closest acquaintances were the Chinese bandits who sold Father Gayn "protective security" - and went after him with a gun if he failed to pay up. Some times Father Gayn's sawmills were run by Russian convicts ("I knocked the hats off some fellows," explained one convict, "and the police found heads inside the hats...
...Eddy, a Yale graduate, has travelled widely in Europe and Asia, and served as Secretary for Asia for the Y.M.C.A. for many years. He was present at Mukden, Manchuria in 1931 at the beginning of the present crisis and was in Germany at the time of the Nazi purges...
Teaching quick-witted Koreans was pleasant until the Japanese seized Manchuria (1931). Then the Japs dictated what should be taught, constantly suspected "dangerous thoughts." When one faculty member preached a chapel sermon on the exodus of the Israelites, the Japanese arrested him, charged him with preaching against them by parables. At last Dr. Underwood did not even dare visit Korean homes. Whenever he did, the Japanese police carted off his hosts to jail...
...Karelo-Finnish Republic, and the pattern of border buffer republics was complete. The land of the Great Russians, the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic, touches foreign territory only in the Far East, where the Amur River divides the R.S.F.S.R. from Japanese-held Manchuria. Between Russia proper and China lies the Mongolian People's Republic, a some-man's land, neither completely in nor quite out of the Soviet Union, but a buffer state just the same...