Word: manchuria
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Sick abed last week lay a fourth Peace Man, Baron Shidehara, who as Japanese Foreign Minister tried to keep the Japanese Army from rushing into Manchuria. That Baron Shidehara was poisoned is Tokyo rumor, may be untrue...
Stubborn Josef Stalin was still trying to avoid last week the mistake that crippled Imperial Russia?war with Japan. But events darkly occurring in Manchuria kept all the Russias on the qui vive...
...Japan three weeks ago occupied Harbin, the recognized "capital" of the "Russian sphere of influence in North Manchuria" (TIME, Feb. 22). Paradoxically, although the Chinese Eastern Railway running through Harbin is under Soviet management, the city itself swarms with at least 25,000 "White Russians" (anti-Soviet). No sooner did Japanese take over Harbin than White Russian Generals Mandriken and Modestov began dickering for arms, promising to use them in a White Russian offensive to capture Vladivostok...
...Great Union. In Manchuria itself, apart from the dark doings at Harbin, the situation was ludicrous. Fortnight ago the new independent state supposed to consist of all Manchuria and part of Mongolia was named Ankuo or "Land of Peace." Almost every day last week it was reported to have a new name, but "Daido" meaning "Great Union" seemed to be the favorite...
Through Japan en route to China passed, last week, the League of Nations' Commission on Manchuria. With good luck they might rush upon the scene just in time to be hailed as Heaven-sent arbitrators by both fighting factions. In Japan they commented exclusively on "the beauty of Japanese scenery...