Word: manchuria
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They are particularly concerned about our approach to the Manchurian border, Fairbank went on, because Manchuria contains China's greatest concentration of raw materials and industrial potential...
...Secretary of State under Hoover, he sternly warned that the unchecked Japanese invasion of Manchuria (in 1931) held the threat of a new war. When Manchuria led to Ethiopia and Ethiopia to the Rhineland and war in Europe, Franklin Roosevelt urged the old man to forget his Republican leanings and become his Secretary of War. Elder Statesman Stimson went back to Washington...
...Divisions joined the R.O.K. 6th Division in a swing northwest of the enemy's main line of retreat, then cut back to the northeast along the Chongchon River. By week's end the 6th Division was north of Huichon, about 50 miles south of Manchuria...
...Russian air force units, of major strength, are centered in Manchuria's Tsitsihar-Harbin area. They help train Chinese airmen...
...Along Manchuria's railways, linking Port Arthur with Mukden, Vladivostok and Manchouli, are another 50,000 Russians. These may be railroad guards rather than organized combat troops...