Word: russia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have said many things new and true, but the things which were new were not true and the things which were true were not new"-applies to the strangely confused words which have recently come from Tokyo. The core of the confusion was Japan's relations with Russia. Official statements and private guesses alike were a series of obfuscations, contradictions, flat denials, inconsistencies. Generals belied statesmen, statesmen seemed not to know what generals were doing...
...practically uncountable wrecked Russian planes, was given to one of the Army's best diplomats, Lieut. General Yoshijiro Umezu, already Japanese Ambassador to Manchukuo. It looked (but no one dared say so, since Japanese are as unpredictable as shooting stars) as if Japan wanted to talk gently with Russia and deal roughly with China...
...Russia's grab last week did not look like Poland's small-boy attempt to run off with a stick of candy while the big boys were killing the proprietor. It looked more like a step in a program of world redistribution whose outlines were consciously obscured, whose possibilities were unknown, perhaps even to the partners in the enterprise. Nothing suggested that Russia faced a fate like Poland's, the last country to share a grab with Germany, except the haunting recollection of Russia's new friends coming in her direction, armed to the teeth...
...Russia has 189 nationalities inside her borders...
...Togo and Premier-Foreign Commissar Vyacheslaff Molotov had signed a truce. Outer Mongolia-Man-chukuo fighting would stop at once, border delimitations begin. With mutual kisses still wet on the unblushing cheeks of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, the world jumped, too soon, to the conclusion that Japan and Russia would also make strange love. The Japanese soon announced that a non-aggression pact between Japan and Russia was "not under consideration." The truce was simpler than that. Russia had some important business in Poland, Japan in China-business so urgent that fighting over a few of the bleakest square...