Word: mongolia
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...Premier Tanaka had said; "In order to conquer China, we must conquer Manthuria and Mongolia. In order to conquer the world, we must first conquer China...
...hinterland is fabulous, remote Sinkiang province (Chinese Turkestan), once a wild and bloody tribal battleground, now a virtual Russian buffer state. To Chiang Kai-shek this had long been an undeveloped treasure house, a possible last refuge for Free China; to Russia it was a cushion against Japanese-infiltrated Mongolia, against British influence from India. Last week the U.S. planned a consulate there-deeper inside Asia and Asiatic politics than this Government had ever penetrated before...
...that the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans are moats around America." For the benefit of party diehards: "My job is to build up an army of voters in the United States to defeat the New Deal, and I don't think there are any votes in China or Mongolia or Russia that I can get for the Republicans...
Zhukov. Joseph Stalin keeps his chosen advisers close by him. Army General Zhukov, at 45 (or 48, some say) officially a Hero of the Soviet Union, wearer of the Order of Lenin and victor over the Japanese in Mongolia, is First Vice Commissar for Defense and second only to Commissar Joseph Stalin in U.S.S.R. military councils...
...Chiangs' firsthand accounts of possibilities, a party of industrialists and engineers left on a survey trip. The Executive Yüan announced an appropriation of $100,000,000 (at the rate of $10,000,000 a year) for irrigation projects in Kansu and its jutting panhandle corridor between Mongolia and Tibet...