Word: manchuria
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...Doom, Holland, last week, Germany's whilom All Highest War Lord, Wilhelm II, spread staff maps of Manchuria on long tables and had fun sticking them with colored pushpins. It was like old times...
Fear lest Japan and Russia shoot it out over Manchuria focused the world's eye on Moscow one day last week. Mist shrouded the Red Square. Through wisps of white the pointed towers of the Kremlin looked down like medieval alchemists in tall, peaked hats; at one corner of the flat-topped red granite tomb of LENIN stood Dictator Joseph Stalin, the Red War Lord?if he should choose to declare...
...Washington the President and Statesman Stimson talked Manchuria for a solid hour, after Japanese Ambassador Debuchi had explained to the State Department that last week's principal armed clash in Manchuria (a three-hour battle in which 135 were killed ) was due to a misunderstanding...
...Clash. Japanese investors, who hold what amounts to a mortgage on the Nonni River bridge near Tsitsihar in northwestern Manchuria, were sorely vexed some weeks ago when it was blown...
...commenting upon the present situation in Manchuria, Professor L. C. Porter, visiting lecturer in Chinese Philosophy, declared that in conducting this outrageous campaign, which in itself is bad enough, the Japanese have no case at all, and that every single excuse or argument that they offer in way of explaining why they are in Manchuria, would be even more true if applied to the Chinese cause. "For instance," he explained, "the Japanese say they need the territory for over-population. But if the Japanese need if, then the Chinese need it twice as much...