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From Novosibirsk last week came the usual bloody item of Soviet grain news, an item so commonplace as to excite no Russian remark. Because the collective farm "Red Front" raised only 40% of its State-scheduled grain quota, the Western Siberian Circuit Court sentenced four of the collective's officials to be shot...
...western Pacific areas. While China was rent with civil dissension and the world was engaged in the fatal European struggle, Japan attempted to force upon the Chinese a treaty which would have impaired their territorial and political integrity. only American threats of armed hostility thwarted Nipponese ambition. Her Siberian expedition, her reluctance to agree to the Washington treaty, her refusal to cooperate in Pacific financial and teriff policies, all give evidence of a political state of mind fatal to Pacific stability. Flouting all the nations of the earth by breaking all previous treaties, she seized Manchuria from a recumbent China...
...bloodedness and Reaction boarded another plane to fly on to Siberia. No sooner had it got fairly into the air than the motor stalled and down it came a thwacking bump. Out crawled Congressman Tinkham. Resolved to trust his life to no more Soviet airmen, he gave up his Siberian trip, took the next plane for Berlin...
...story of vicarious travel in the Far East, 26-year-old Oxonian Fleming first takes us along the outside rim of Red China, along the Trans-Siberian Express, from Moscow to Manchukuo. Fleming is immediately disarming as he announces that this is "a superficial account of an unsensational journey". His Anglo-Saxon honesty compels him to add "I dare say I could have made my half-baked conclusions on the major issue of the Far East sound convincing. But it is one thing to bore your readers and another to mislead them". Such frankness is, indeed, unusual...
...Tsarist Russia $400,000,000 (preWar) to build. Its normal annual profit from 1924 to 1930 was nearly 20,000,000 gold rubles* a year. Even in 1933, after Japan had seized Manchuria, it earned 11,500,000 rubles. It was shorter, by 3,300 mi., than the Trans-Siberian Railroad's great circle route to Vladivostok. But its war value to Soviet Russia vanished when Japanese troops swarmed over Manchukuo. The sole question then was whether Japan would grab or buy the Chinese Eastern...