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...complete list of Japanese proposals reached the public. But it was reported that to most of them-Japanese pledges not to invade Siberia, to get out of French Indo-China, to make many minor concessions-the U.S. continued to quote Mein Kampf. Aside from the moral issues involved, the U.S. cannot let Japan-and Hitler-get control of China's huge man power. Four points were given as summing up Secretary Hull's counter-demands on the Japanese: 1) that Japan withdraw from the Axis; 2) get out of China and French Indo-China; 3) renounce aggression...
Belinsky, the literary critic, wrote the letter castigating the old, then reactionary Gogol which for young Russians ever since has been a sort of declaration of faith in freedom. Chernyshevsky was the one who began as a literary critic but eventually went to Siberia for his classic revolutionary answer to the question What Is To Be Done...
...audience had stood while a phonograph played God Save the King (sometimes called America) and the Internationale, then watched a play called Distant Point by a Russian author named Alexander Afinogenov. The play was about a Red Army general, dying of cancer of the lung, talking to villagers in Siberia, persuading them that they must prepare themselves for invasion...
Korea s the nearest point of the mainland from Japan, and the samurai had no easy access to Manchuria, Siberia and China without first dominating Korea. So, the samurai were out to got Korea by chicanery. Since the signing of the first treaty in 1876, they wooed the Korean friendship. In declaring war on Russia the Japanese Emperor said, "Separate existence of Korea is essential to the safety of our realm." And Japan unduly influenced Korea to sign a treaty of defensive an defensive alliance against Russia on February 23, 1904. Article III of the treaty read: "The Imperial Government...
...Bolshoi Theater casts. The U.S. Embassy holed up in a former school. Diplomats gathered at the Grand Hotel for flat beer from the local brewery. With the Germans still 600 miles away in the west, they speculated about the Volga Germans, many of whom had been deported to Siberia. With the Italians still 700 miles away in the southwest, they sat down to huge meals of Samara's abundant local macaroni...