Quotes About Manchuria

There were flurries of concern in the West when shells landed on foreign concessions or threatened ships. But, as in Manchuria, nobody would take practical steps to hold back Japan even when its army landed at the end of February and marched in to bolster the lacklustre marines.

Although the defects of the Russian Army were notorious, although the Russian winter, not the Russian Army, had turned Napoleon back from Moscow, although it had been defeated on its own soil by the French and British in the Crimea, although the Turks in 1877 had outfought it at the siege of Plevna and only succumbed later to overwhelming numbers, although the Japanese had outfought it in Manchuria, a myth of its invincibility prevailed.

in 1959, with the discovery in Manchuria of a giant oil field named Daqing—which means "Great Celebration." By the 1980s, the domestic petroleum industry was meeting the nation's needs and also producing a surplus of oil that was exported, principally to Japan.

Because the unchecked eastward advance into Manchuria and Korea of Russia—a country that, in Roosevelt's words, "pursued a policy of consistent opposition to us in the East, and of literally fathomless mendacity"—

and the refusal of the Roosevelt administration to recognise the Japanese government imposed on Manchuria.

I've been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan's vicious crimes in Manchuria and China.