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Despite shortages, the 1948 food production of the home islands was slightly above the 1931-40 annual average. But the population has grown still faster so there was less food for each mouth. Before 1937 Japan grew 80% of its own food. Sugar from Formosa and soybeans from Manchuria made it almost completely self-sufficient within its empire. With only the home islands, it can provide 70% of its prewar level of 2,160 calories a day. The growing population will make it very hard to push self-sufficiency in food above...
...same time, the Russians marched into Manchuria in their one-week war against Japan and for months prevented the Nationalist troops from entering the northern provinces. Li Lisan returned with the Red army from his Moscow exile and was established in Manchuria. He had successfully purged himself of Trotskyism, had married a Russian girl, and was said to be in high favor with Stalin...
Last summer, in Harbin, Asian Communist delegates met to receive certain instructions from Moscow. One of the speakers was Li Lisan, Mao's old rival, and now presumed to be Red boss of Manchuria. Said Li ominously: "Some of our comrades in Asia have been in error . . . We must avoid at all costs the spread of nationalistic Communism in Asia. We cannot tolerate a Tito in Asia...
...seven were: Hideki Tojo, wartime Premier of Japan; General Kenji Doihara, who had engineered the Mukden Incident in 1931; General Heitaro Kimura, former commander in Manchuria; General Iwane Matsui, responsible for the rape of Nanking; General Akira Muto, former chief of staff in the Philippines; ex-Premier (1936-37) Koki Hirota; ex-War Minister Seishiro Itagaki...
...number drowned in the Kiangya sinking was about 2,750. Last month another (unidentified) Chinese vessel, evacuating troops from Manchuria, went down with 6,000 aboard. Among the greatest maritime disasters hitherto recorded: the Titanic (1912), which went down with 1,517; the Lusitania (1915) with 1,198; the General Slocum (1904) with...