Word: manchuria
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...Where is China?" asked Czar Mikhail Romanov. "Is it rich? What can we lay claim to?" Russian claims (Manchuria, Outer Mongolia, Sinkiang) caused friction for centuries, down to the present...
Suddenly, however, the charming garden club women turn inexplicably into Chinese and Russian scientists at a secret meeting in Manchuria, and when the hydrangea-lovers reappear moments later, the chairwoman is no longer speaking on flowers. She is asking the head of the American patrol to murder two of his men. "Yes ma'am," he replies politely, and obviously anxious to please his hostesses, he strangles one (with a scarf thoughtfully provided by a woman in the audience) and shoots the other in the forehead. The sweet ladies of the garden club applaud his performance enthusiastically...
...camera turns back to the little old -what the deuce is going on here! The little old lady has inexplicably become a little old Chinese Communist professor, and the Garden Club is alarmingly transmogrified into a conclave of Russian and Chinese military and police officials meeting secretly in Manchuria...
...were reasonable, no harm would come to him. We would not kill him. Look at the former Emperor of Manchuria. He is very happy...
...belief in a new Eastern Front was even more ludicrous. The British wished to ship a large Japanese army into Western Siberia in order to combat imaginary German forces. Not only did they blind themselves to Japanese imperialist designs on Eastern Siberia and Manchuria but failed to see that it would take years to transport an army of any size to Omsk which, once it got there, would be a thousand miles from the nearest German army...