Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another thing; you people think you have only to be in the defensive and your almighty production lines will take care of winning the war. Why has the U.S. in almost two weeks' time not yet bombed Tokyo ? It could easily be done from Siberian bases. Even from Alaska. Or could it be you are afraid Los Angeles and Frisco would be bombed in return? Wars are not won being afraid. You have to take chances, else you get beaten...
Vladivostok has been temporarily abandoned as a port of entry for U.S. goods, not only because of the danger of friction with Japan. Vladivostok, though much farther south, has more ice than Archangel. Besides, the long Trans-Siberian Railway is far too busy carrying troops to the front and machinery from it. But Vladivostok could be used in a pinch...
Chinese General Hsueh Yo said this week that Japan had 32 divisions on the Siberian border ready for a crack at Soviet Russia-if Adolf Hitler weakened Russia enough. By way of preparation for war, Japan sent three vessels to the U.S. to take its nationals back home. But even high Japanese Army officers were not too happy about the prospect. Commenting on Japan's present predicament, Colonel Kikujiro Okada of the War Ministry said: "We cannot just die off, smothering in an iron bucket clamped over our head, and at the same time we cannot remove the bucket...
...British decided that it would be strategically wise to waive Lend-Lease rights for the time being and stand by while the U.S. sent goods tagged for Britain to Russia instead. Some of these goods would go to Russia across the Pacific to Vladivostok, and thence along the Trans-Siberian Railway. But for the time being most would go across the Atlantic and in by way of Archangel (see map). The Russians gave assurances that their efficient ice-breaking service would keep this life line open...
Japan began feeling out Russian defenses along the 1,800-mile Manchukuo-Siberian border. Small frontier clashes sputtered all week. Having made an issue of Soviet mines laid in the Japan Sea, Japan claimed they were illegal floating mines, that two Japanese fishing boats had been sunk by them. Anticipating the enlargement of this or some other issue, Russia's Ambassador to Tokyo Constantin Smetanin sent his and other Soviet embassy wives home to the U.S.S.R...