Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bewildered Jap prison-camp commander at Keijo, Korea said that he had no instructions about surrender-would not the Americans fly back to China if he gave them gasoline? In Peiping the commander said he could not allow the teams to see any prisoners until he had instructions from Nanking; meanwhile, he put them up as guests in Peiping's famed Wagon-lits Hotel. Not a single shot was reported fired at the paratroopers who took the long chance on their errands of mercy...
Stalin and Molotov had first demanded that China recognize the "independence" of Russian-dominated Outer Mongolia, which China claims. China must also allow certain provinces of Inner Mongolia to unite with Outer Mongolia. (On this point Stalin was adamant.) Manchuria must have a "very liberal autonomy"; China must acknowledge Russian interests in the province and settle Russian claims to the strategic Chinese Eastern and South Manchurian railways. The Russians suggested "considerable autonomy" for Sinkiang, with "rectification" of its frontiers in favor of neighboring Soviet Asia...
Your issue of July 23 contains these words about Ecuador: ". . . looted for centuries by 'practical' rulers." Allow me to protest. You have been badly misinformed. Not a single president or dictator in my country has taken advantage of his position to enrich himself. Every one of them . . . has been an honest man. Dr. Velasco Ibarra, indeed, speaks frequently about graft from his predecessors as a political trick to impress the mob. It is one of his many low political tricks...
...Russia's reluctance to quit northern Iran and her refusal to allow Iranian reinforcements to enter the Russian zone to quell rebellious tribesmen...
Continental Dilemma. Stating the new policy was one thing; making it work would be another. Several sources reported last week that one of the secret Yalta agreements included a promise to allow Russia some 50% of all reparations. Russia had been busily practicing what the commission now preached, uprooting whole factories and moving them eastward by the train load. Could the Russian zone, partly stripped, actually be treated as "a single entity" with the British and U.S. areas, where no such confiscation had been planned? Would the Russians want to collect from the other zones as well, or would Moscow...