Word: sakhaline
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...fomenting plots, and conferred with the Great Exile in detail. Red Trotsky & Nazi Hess were supposed to have agreed that, after Stalin had been assassinated, Germany was to get the Ukraine and Japan Eastern Siberia, with the headline-making addition last week that Japan be given the island of Sakhalin from which she would get "oil for the Japanese Navy to make war on America."Red Romm, A charge had been made by Prosecutor Vishinsky that many letters between Radek and Trotsky were carried by Vladimir Romm, erstwhile Washington correspondent of Izvestia ("News"), the official government newspaper. Comrade Romm...
...socially-minded day, he took no interest in social problems. Chekhov certainly did not believe in Art for Propaganda's sake: he thought that "a writer should be just as objective as a chemist." But he surprised his critics by suddenly taking himself off to the Island of Sakhalin, Russian penal colony, and doing a book about conditions there which brought about reforms. With a sidelong glance at his critics, he said: "I am glad that these stiff prison overalls hang in my literary wardrobe...
...Sino-Japanese War, which added Formosa, the Pescadores Islands, and the puppet Kingdom of Korea to the Empire of the Rising Sun, the earthquake of 1896 killed 27,102. After the Russo-Japanese War and the acquisition of Port Arthur, the Kwantung Peninsula and the southern half of Sakhalin, the Formosa earthquake of 1906 killed 1,228. After the Treaty of Versailles gave Japan a precious bagful of Pacific Island mandates, came the terrible earthquake of 1923 which killed 91,344. And three years ago Japan grabbed Manchukuo...
...heavy Samurai sword, set off to fight Russia with the First Infantry Brigade and fairly crowed with triumph when Japan captured Port Arthur and Southern Manchuria a second time, taking over Russia's "lease" and also the southern half of Russia's oil-rich island Sakhalin...
...Rumors that Moscow is helping me," he continued, "must be due to the fact that while I was Chief of Police of the Town of Sakhalin-Ula I used to dine twice a year with the Soviet officials. I can swear that no foreigners have given or are giving me guns, munitions, supplies or money! I want the League of Nations to fulfill its duty. I want it to force the Japanese to withdraw from Northern Manchuria. If I am forced to abandon Tsitsihar I intend to retire into the back country...