Word: mukden
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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...
...Eddy, a Yale graduate, has travelled widely in Europe and Asia, and served as Secretary for Asia for the Y.M.C.A. for many years. He was present at Mukden, Manchuria in 1931 at the beginning of the present crisis and was in Germany at the time of the Nazi purges...
Then four companies of Japanese attacked nearby Chinese barracks housing some 10,000 troops. The Chinese, who had orders from Young Marshal Chang Hsüeh-liang not to resist, retired. Other Jap companies marched into Mukden, three miles down the line. By morning they were in full possession and had started to persuade the world that China was a synonym for chaos and the setting up of puppet "Manchukuo" a regrettable necessity. It was Sept...
...shabby, weary Chinese cities, from Canton to Harbin, last week men noted that it was twelve years now since the start of World War II outside Mukden...
...film is both education and propaganda. In one hammering hour, it not only sketches recent world history from the Mukden Incident to the conquest of Ethiopia; it also makes the first impressive attempt in a U.S. film to present the theory and practice of Fascism. The picture works under several handicaps: 1) the broad contents of its story are wearily familiar to many; 2) the territory which must be covered is vast and intricate; 3) the teaching method-that of the illustrated lecture-means that the enormous power possible in screen images is dominated and reduced by words. But against...