From Talk To Tanks To Talk:
Russo-Japanese Forty-Year Record
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By TRUDI McCULLOUGH
AP Newsfeatures Writer
(PART ONE)
NEW YORK — {/P) — Since the
Russian-Japanese war of 1940
there has been less love lost be
tween those two countries than
perhaps any others except Russia
and Germany.
Straind foreign relations for the
first 25 years were supplanted by
a state of armed belligerence for
the next 15. Since 1931 Moscow
and Tokyo have reported at least
2,500 border clashes. Most were
tiny local forays, but a few, util
izing tanks, planes, and artillery,
were on battle scale.
But like the trials of marriage
in a soap opera, the pattern of dis
put crisis and reconciliation has
remained substantially the same.
The chief diversion was that after
1935 Russia has strengthened her
self to the point that she no longer
had to make all the concessions,
but began to demand and get
some. Still the relationship cul
minated in the Russian-Japanese
neutrality pact and trade treaty of
1941, and can be renewed for five
years from 1946 to 1951.
U. S. Intervenes
Japan by 1918 was ready to
seize the Russian half of Sakhalin
island with its coal and oil. She
took Vladivostok and tried to es
tablish her armies in southern Si
beria. But U. S. diplomatic pres
sure forced her to withdraw.
By 1931 when Japan assaulted
Manchuria Russia was still reluc
tant to take forceful measures to
protect her interests.
In December 1931 Russia pro
i posed a non-aggression pact.
Japan said it was not necessary.
Russia withheld formal recogni
tion of Manchoukuo but had to do
business with the puppet state be
cause of her Chinese Eastern Rail
way. By 1933, Russia was willing
to sell the railroad.
But even before the railway
problem had been finally settled
the focus of hostilities shifted to
border disputes. For 18 months
clashes and parleys alternated
along the Manchurian-Outer Mon
golia frontier. They reached the
explosive stag in early 1936.
Grant Citizenship
To 31 Service
Men On Adak
ADAK, Aleutians, July 9—</P)—
For the first time the federal court
met on this remote island and
Disrict Judge Anthony J. Dimond,
Third Judicial District, granted
citizenship to thirty army and
navy men who were born in other
countries.
Court was held in the Service
Men’s theater. Judge Dimond flew
from Anchorage for the service.
In the party were Judge Dimond,
Mrs. Brunelle, clerk; Raymond E.
Plummer, assistant United States
attorney; Elaine Daly, court re
porter; Anna May Thomas, deputy
clerk; Catherine Brundage, depu
ty clerk; and Mary Beebe, clerk
to the United States attorney.
CROSS PLANE FLIES
INTO NOME
Major John Cross, of the North
ern Cross Airways, of Deering,
Alaska is in town on business.
Major Cross was recently released
from active duty in the Air Corps.
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