Word: manchukuo
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...When Maryknoll's first martyr was kidnapped by bandits from his mission in Manchukuo and strangled, New York's Archbishop Francis J. Spellman wrote: "In many a missionary heart there throbs a holy envy of Father Gerard Donovan...
...hoarding of steel-the bathtubs and radiators salvaged from Shanghai houses which had been bombarded with Japanese steel; the hoarding of oil-the boatloads of it wheedled from the U.S. against the eventual drive for oil; the hoarding of young men-hardened to horror on the cold plains of Manchukuo and in the hot valley of the Yangtze. For the sake of the chips there had been abnegation: less rice, less fish, less charcoal, no taxi rides, a minimum of sake, stinting on geishas, wood-pulp clothes...
...side of Axis propagandists. Early marked by Axis gunmen and terrorists, he packed his tough 220 Ib. in a bullet-proof vest, bought a .45 and carried on. During the last two years he observed the handiwork of Tokyo's German advisers in coordinating stations in Manchukuo, Nanking and Shanghai with Tokyo's Government-operated Station JOAK and its Domei News Agency line of talk. Latest and ugliest trend in that talk: that the Japanese are fighting the yellow man's battles against the white...
Against the Allies: Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Manchukuo, Rumania, Slovakia...
...stocks enough for about 15 months of all-out war. Normally consuming 28 million barrels a year, she can command from Manchukuo. Sakhalin, Formosa, and her own wells and synthetic productions only some 7 ½ million barrels...