Wisecracking wearily along from Tokyo toward Moscow last week. Newsclown Will Rogers paused at Hsinking. the capital of Manchukuo's puppet Emperor to remark:*"This country is so mad at Russia they've broken off the diplomatic relations that never existed."
No official break, as a matter of fact, had occurred, but Soviet Russia was thoroughly "mad" at Japan and her puppet. Manchukuo police and soldiers have been high-handedly arresting Soviet employes of the Chinese Eastern Railway (TIME, Aug. 27) along which Will Rogers jounced from Harbin to...
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