Word: manchurian
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...rate of climb which, if maintained, would bring "Dollar Wheat" by Christmas. All of next year's futures crossed the 70<' line and went beyond. La Salle Street's air throbbed with bullish rumor: Russia was definitely out of the export market; the Manchurian situation meant war and war meant a wheat shortage; U. S. farmers will cut their 1932 acreage drastically; nearly one-third of Germany's crop was ruined by wet weather...
...reports of transfer of Red soldiers to the Manchurian border or to anywhere in Siberia are nonsense," said Klim. "Not a soldier, not a gun has been shifted to that region. Our future policy toward Japan will depend entirely upon the sincerity of Japan's desire to maintain neighborly relations with...
...went briskly to work. Near by were 2,500 Chinese troops under anti-Japanese General Ma Chan-shan. As to how the battle began there were indeed "misunderstandings." Each side charged the other with opening fire without provocation. For three hours there was a battle, but of the peculiar Manchurian kind. Only 15 Japanese were reported killed as their comrades slew 120 Chinese, advanced and drove General Ma's remaining troops flying before them toward Tsitsihar. Later General Ma returned to the attack with a much larger force, dislodged Japanese from their advance positions but did not recapture the bridge...
...increase Japanese worries, spies reported that supplies of Soviet ammunitions and machine guns were appearing mysteriously in the Manchurian camps of Chinese "Generals" hostile to Japan. Such threats were no mere League of Nations note or invocation of a shadowy Pact of Paris. Post-haste the Japanese Ambassador in Moscow, Koki Hirota, rushed around to make a deal at the Soviet Foreign Office with that very cold Red fish, Comrade Leonid M. Karakhan...
Minister of Foreign Affairs, specializes in Far East diplomacy. His first move was to tell Japanese Ambassador Hirota that "the Soviet Government will follow a policy of strict non-interference in the Manchurian crisis," and to denounce Japan's occupation of Manchuria by implication thus: "The Soviet Government considers that the policy of military occupation, applied under whatever form of so-called protection of interests and nations, is inconsistent with the peaceful policy of the Soviet Union and with the interests of world peace...