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...rapidly into the sea tomorrow, it would only provide a human interest story for the Boston American, with cuts, and a new job for the Physics profs. The latest cheerful dispatch from Manchukuo, indicating the altruistic mission of a large body of soldiery to "deal with bandits on the Siberian frontier" doesn't bother anyone but the Russians, who, as everyone knows, don't count. In fact, all the European countries are wishing they could run excursion trains into the maritime provinces in the spring to cheer the Japs as they munch the bored cadavers of stagnant Siberians. In short...
...encamped in her back yard. With terrible clearness it becomes evident that she can take only one course: a "preventive war" must be waged on Russia before that country reaches the full maturity of its strength. By April or May, Japan will have consolidated her position in Manchuria, the Siberian winter will be over and the roads open; it will be Japan's great chance to get a "place in the sun," and the coming of Spring in Siberia will probably be heralded by the roar of the guns along the Amur River...
...words, discarding diplomatic disguise. It is perfectly true that the Soviet garrisons and the lower territory itself will be lost instantly when war begins: Manchukuo is so placed that the Japanese will have no trouble whatever in splitting the Maritime provinces off from the rest of Russia. The Trans-Siberian line could be cut at a dozen spots, thus severing Vladivostok from her base of supplies. All this the Soviet Union knows perfectly well, and it is basing its military calculations on the assumption of those immediate losses. But to leave the threatened region defenceless now would be an open...
Flights & Flyers Via Brewery. While the rival whom he failed to beat was starting after fresh triumphs, hapless Jimmie Mattern was fretting and fuming at Anadyr, the isolated Siberian settlement where he was rescued fortnight ago (TIME, July 17). He had recovered from the effects of two weeks starvation, and he was able to hobble around on his broken ankle. All he wanted now was a chance to complete the first solo flight around the world before Wiley Post could snare that honor too. His Lockheed Century of Progress was a wreck where it had cracked up in the wilderness...
...President Wilson only interfered twice with military operations while I was Chief of Staff and both times he was wrong. The first of these was the Siberian Expedition; the other sending troops to northern Russia. ... I opposed at all times the slightest diversion of our troops [from France]. . . . [the result was] the complete failure of these expeditions to accomplish anything...