Word: manchuria
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Chang Ching-hui was an ambitious man who lived by the sword. Born in Manchuria, he rose to power among the Chinese, who distrust personal ambition and deprecate the sword. Worse, in the end, he betrayed China. But last week, according to Chungking reports, Chang Ching-hui redeemed himself: with a certain nobility, he ended his career...
...airpower as the start of a long-awaited air offensive. Such rejoicing was premature. But by simple arithmetic the Japs could figure that if U.S. bombers were within range of Linhsi and Hong Kong, they were within range of most of the Stolen Empire-Korea, Formosa, Manila, Manchuria-and even of the island homeland...
...when Secretary of War Stimson was forced to admit last week that members of General Doolittle's Tokyo bombing party are now prisoners of Japan. After the raid Doolittle stated that "no planes were left behind in Japan." It is now known that several planes were forced down in Manchuria and other Jap-held regions. With such deliberate deceptions as this coming to light from time to time, it will soon be obvious to many Americans that daily bulletins from the Pacific are falling quite short of picturing the struggle in full. Complacency was America's greatest enemy before December...
...Japanese Army, and a series of statesmen ranging from an apologizing Tokyo of 1931 to an aroused Roosevelt of December 8, 1941. The scenes, all newsreel shot, tell a vivid story. In logical, almost childish simplicity, they recount the tale of Axis aggression, beginning with the invasion of Manchuria in 1931, ending with the American entrance into the war. At the same time, Allied weakness is traced through the stages of appeasement diplomacy down to the critical period of woeful unpreparedness...
...such, the film must be new and different. For in its analysis of world happenings of the decade of preparation, no one is spared. Grinning Japanese soldiers overrunning Manchuria are no more repelling than a grinning Prime Minister, returning to England after signing away the life of a nation. The German flag over Vienna looks no worse than the signatures of a British and French leader on a Munich pact...