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...Among Three. Itagaki's career and power had their foundations in the area where he now waits to strike: in North China, Manchuria and the near borders of Russia's Siberia (see map). There were bred Japanese hates, fears and hopes which only war could release. There too, in a vast segment of the earth almost unknown to the U.S. people, swirled forces which deeply involved the U.S. and, at least in Japanese minds, committed the U.S. to a final war for Asia...
During the past 20 years Siberia has been the stage for one of the swiftest, most abrupt and feverish social and political developments the world has known. How massive that development may be, the rest of the world began to suspect when most of the industrial Ukraine went under, and Russia continued to arm herself from the Siberian arsenal...
...Soviet Asia lies in its mineral resources, its rich agricultural production, its factories and its geographic position. Lying close to nine countries on three continents, it enters into "the military-strategic aspect of almost every front, excepting the Libyan and the Atlantic." Only at its extreme frontiers is Siberia really vulnerable...
...Western Siberia, stretching from the Urals to the Yenisei River, is the least vulnerable area in Russia. Machinery made in its "gigantic new plants" supplies the farms and the factories of most of Soviet Asia. In the Krasnoyarsk Territory (still only 12% explored) are 154 coal beds totaling an estimated 670 billion tons. There are another 500 billion tons at Kuznetzk, producing 20,000,000 tons a year. Within 100 miles of Kuznetzk there are an estimated 500,000,000 tons of iron ore. In 1912 the total commercial output for the Novosibirsk Region...
...Siberia's Far East extends 3,450 air miles. Its coastline is nearly twice that long. The Manchukuoan frontier alone is as long as Europe's Eastern Front. The Trans-Siberian railroad has been double-tracked all the way to Vladivostok, but is extremely vulnerable. If it were cut, the chief cities - Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, Komsomolsk-would be isolated. Further north two new lines are being rushed. Biggest industrial enterprise in the Far East is the Chapcherginsk Tin Combinat, which produces 65% of all Soviet tin. No. 1 industrial center is Komsomolsk, where the Amur Steel Works turn...