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...trained Chinese armies were readied to reoccupy key cities as soon as the Japanese gave up. U.S. air forces stood by to transport them. The Central Government appointed mayors for Canton, Shanghai, Nanking, Hankow, Peiping, Tientsin and a governor (General Hsiung Shi-hui) for Manchuria's strategic Kwantung Peninsula...
...Great Wall, in China proper, an army of 900,000 had been slightly reduced by withdrawals to the north. But the enemy still held the basins of the Yellow and Yangtze rivers, the mouth of the West River, and most of the great ports fronting on the China seas-Canton, Hong Kong, Amoy,'Swatow and Hangchow-around to Shanghai and the Yellow...
...German garrisons in Channel and Biscay ports remained after the sweep across France. They would remain for a similar purpose : to deny such ports and bases as Singapore and Saigon, Batavia and Suerabaja to the Allies. Others like them would remain in major Chinese ports, such as Canton, Amoy and Swatow...
...Line. In Canton, N.Y., bumblebees came out before the blossoms because of the spring heat, buzz-boomed after shoppers who were carrying home fruit and vegetables...
...ragged sum, these church critics seemed to feel that the church should shed its parochialism, actually practice brotherhood, instead of merely preaching it, and concern itself with human life rather than with doctrines. Dean John M. Atwood, of St. Lawrence University's Theological School, Canton, N.Y., summed up the Protestant unease: "Ministers and others seem to think that they qualify as religious when they make ascriptions of praise to God . . . and piously go through their devotions. . . . [But] their first and great purpose is not formally to glorify or serve God-which is always orthodox and safe -but to serve...