Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Across 1,000 miles of Asia's bandit-infested "Wild East" stretches the Chinese Eastern Railway, spanning Japan's puppet state of Manchukuo from frontier to frontier and serving as a short-cut for the Trans-Siberian Line between Moscow and Vladivostok. Japan has had a wolfish eye on C. E. R. ever since it was built by Imperial Russia, which retained a half interest in the road. This half interest Soviet Ambassador Yurenev offered last year to sell for 250,000,000 gold rubles (then $168,000,000). Japan insisted that the nominal buyer must be Manchukuo...
...Japanese were near, the winters were long and old Jews remembered it as Russia's Devil's Island whither the Tsars sent Jews and terrorists before the Revolution. Soon European Jews heard the rumor that on the day Biro-Bidjan was declared a Jewish territory a Siberian tiger ate the only policeman in the region...
...Feverish preparations are now going on in Russia to withstand the Japanese plans. Russia has double-tracked its Siberian railroads; it has sent colonies of men into Siberia. But Russia's great difficulty is that it is too far away from the seat of trouble, Northern Manchuria...
...Sixty Siberian dog teams mushed to the rescue of whom...
...Moscow "Klim" as Army Commissar knows well enough that the Red Army, second largest (562,000) in the world though it be, is untried, inexperienced and if forced to fight Japan at the end of the Trans-Siberian 5,600 miles from Moscow will be at an appalling disadvantage. But as Commissar for Air he is believed to feel that the Red Air Force (2,000 planes) is Russia's joker, her super-trump card against Japan...