Word: moscow-berlin
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...special Moscow-Berlin express, supplied by the Soviet Government, piled some 60 Chinese-men, women, children, soldiers, bodyguards and generals. In the centre of the group was that irrepressible jack-in-the-box, droop-whiskered General Ma Chan-shan. Bland General Ma was acclaimed "China's Hero" year and a half ago when he offered the only serious resistance to Japanese invasion of Manchuria (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931 et seq.). Immediately thereafter he put on an exhibition of double-crossing unrivalled even among the Chinese. Having first received thousands of dollars from his patriotic countrymen, he then fled before...