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China agreed to give up her "sovereignty" of Outer Mongolia (a poor land with less than 1,000,000 inhabitants) where Chinese rule has been shaky for 50 years, and purely nominal since 1924 when Outer Mongolia came under the Soviet thumb...
Bloody Baron. Inner Mongolia is the lean twin (some 300,000 sq. mi.) of Outer Mongolia (some 900,000 sq. mi.). In pre-World War I days Outer Mongolia, with its less-than-one-million lama-ruled herds men, was nominally a part of China, actually a Tsarist protectorate...
Stalin and Molotov had first demanded that China recognize the "independence" of Russian-dominated Outer Mongolia, which China claims. China must also allow certain provinces of Inner Mongolia to unite with Outer Mongolia. (On this point Stalin was adamant.) Manchuria must have a "very liberal autonomy"; China must acknowledge Russian interests in the province and settle Russian claims to the strategic Chinese Eastern and South Manchurian railways. The Russians suggested "considerable autonomy" for Sinkiang, with "rectification" of its frontiers in favor of neighboring Soviet Asia...
Yamada's army proved to have few aircraft, and no worth-while outer defenses. Whether the Kwantung Army, long expert at saber-rattling, had decided to put up or shut up, the Russians had already approached strategic points in Manchuria...
...entire issue to an exposé of "this propagandist in our midst." The flaming red cover showed Laski as a socialist saint (see cut). A cartoon showed the socialist Day of Judgment with Professor Laski surrounded by human freaks, casting better-dressed citizens (Harvard men, no doubt) into outer darkness...