Word: manchuria
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...bitter cold of Manchuria great things were about to happen this week. Squads of police had searched every house in Changchung and confiscated 3,000 rifles and 150,000 rounds of ammunition. Carloads of grain arrived to be distributed to 30,000 poor families while arrangements were made to house 4,000 homeless free. A guard of 5,000 troops was set round the still incomplete Imperial City. In an open courtyard a few handpicked correspondents saw court dignitaries in dragon gowns and fur hats with jeweled buttons bow low to the ground before a stuffed dummy on a lacquered...
...this had a profound effect on the various nations which so loudly deplored the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. France was expected to recognize Ta Manchu Tikuo, was offering Japan a 15-year credit for locomotives, rails, other equipment for the South Manchuria Railway. Germany longed to do likewise, but refrained from a definite commitment until the Nazi Government could decide whether it would make more money by recognizing Ta Manchu Tikuo than it would lose by insulting the Nationalist Government of China. Even the U. S., most outspoken under the Hoover regime in its criticism of Japan's Manchurian...
...Japan, and not Russia, will start it, because the Russians realize that it would play havoc with their economic plans to get embroiled in a war. Russia can't afford to fight but Japan will force her to do so because she wants to safeguard her position in Manchuria. It is hard to tell what the objectives of such a struggle would be. Japan may be trying to set up a buffer state in Eastern Siberia. This would be difficult, because the population of this state would be almost entirely Russian...
...Russia is trying to keep on good terms with Japan. The Russians own the Chinese Eastern Railway, which runs through Manchuria, and to maintain peace they would be willing to sell it. However, the Japanese don't trust Russia, and this will come to be a source of trouble. There is no absolute necessity for war, but one will be caused by the over-abundance of military-minded people in Japan...
...Feverish preparations are now going on in Russia to withstand the Japanese plans. Russia has double-tracked its Siberian railroads; it has sent colonies of men into Siberia. But Russia's great difficulty is that it is too far away from the seat of trouble, Northern Manchuria...