Word: manchuria
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...coal and oil, and added it to their southern half. In the guise of Allied intervention, they seized Vladivostok, a port worthwhile for itself and dangerously near Japan's home islands. They attempted to lodge their armies deep in southern Siberia, so far north of China and Manchuria that the Russians could never strike through that area at a sphere which Japan held to be its own, or at Japan itself. Thus did the Japs justify this outrageous grab...
...Among Three. Itagaki's career and power had their foundations in the area where he now waits to strike: in North China, Manchuria and the near borders of Russia's Siberia (see map). There were bred Japanese hates, fears and hopes which only war could release. There too, in a vast segment of the earth almost unknown to the U.S. people, swirled forces which deeply involved the U.S. and, at least in Japanese minds, committed the U.S. to a final war for Asia...
Said Philosopher Blanshard, a Quaker convert: pacifism is "plainly immoral." A Friend, he maintained, can take up arms and still be a Friend. He rejected the position that "the use of organized force by one group upon another is always wrong." Since Japan invaded Manchuria, he wrote, pacifists have "made the renunciation of force into a Moloch whose idolatry had to be maintained, no matter what the cost in lawlessness, blood and misery...
Said Philosopher Blanshard, a Quaker convert: pacifism is "plainly immoral." A Friend, he maintained, can take up arms and still be a Friend. He rejected the position that "the use of organized force by one group upon another is always wrong." Since Japan invaded Manchuria, he wrote, pacifists have "made the renunciation of force into a Moloch whose idolatry had to be maintained, no matter what the cost in lawlessness, blood and misery...
...Newcomers. But the main thing has been crop diversification, a trend that started in mid-depression, picked up two years ago, spurted after Pearl Harbor. Prime example is soybeans-a plant most farmers vaguely connected with China and Manchuria a decade ago but now the No. 1 U.S. miracle crop. In 1918 farmers planted only 169,000 acres of soybeans. In 1941 they hit 10,000,000 acres; this year a whacking 14,241,000 acres are in soybeans-far more than all U.S. orange, grapefruit and lemon orchards combined...