Word: manchurian
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...other side of the world Japan's only ally, Nazi Germany, was crumbling to final ruin. Her potential new enemy, Soviet Russia, stood huge and menacing on the Manchurian border. She was virtually cut off from the rubber, oil, tin and foodstuffs of the South Seas. She had lost more than 1,800 merchant ships. In the mathematics of war, if not on last week's calendar, Japan was close to defeat...
...recent Chinese immigration into Manchuria is almost unparalleled," he stated. "And Manchuria remains a veritable pioneer region--the area of its arable land still can be doubled, and so can its population. The potential values of the natural resources--iron ore, coal, timber, and oil shale--of the Manchurian hill lands in their relation to post-war industrialization are almost incalculable...
...execution of the Doolittle raiders Japan had no explanation within civilized military usage; this time, if its explanation was to be trusted, it had legal excuse. Japan's story: the three Americans, confined in a Manchurian prison camp, had broken out, walked for ten days headed toward Russian territory. A police inspector had stopped them, been told they were stranded German flyers. They had led him into the country, ostensibly to examine their wrecked plane, there had killed him with a kitchen knife...
Boom in Boomtown. The target was a group of war factories in the Jap boomtown of Anshan, 53 miles south-southwest of Mukden, where the Japs began their conquest of China 13 years ago. Dominating the forest of chimneys which rose from the Manchurian plain were the stacks of the Showa Steel Works, largest in the conquered provinces, Japan's No. 2 producer of pig iron, No. 3 producer of rolled steel and steel ingots...
...winter of 1934 Sheng Shih-tsai, a Manchurian-born Chinese officer who had assumed dictatorship of the province, was beleaguered in the provincial capital at Urumchi. Outside the city's walls, in the bitter cold, young Ma Chung-ying's troops were slaughtering and torturing Chinese refugees. Cut off, separated from the Central Government by over 1,500 miles of desert and mountains, Sheng had two choices: to surrender himself and his troops to certain butchery; or to accept aid where he could find...