Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia was believed to have an eye on both last week-by direct demand on Turkey for special rights in the Straits, and indirectly, through Yugoslav pressure on Greece, for control of Macedonia. Turkey's eastern frontier was also inflamed (see below), while Moscow's Pravda underlined the...
On hand for the occasion were Prague's Mayor Vaclav Macek and a "Monsieur Mong" representing the mayor of Chungking. But France's most important guest was Sidi Lamine, Bey of Tunis. He arrived wearing fez, black tunic and red gold-striped trousers. Across his chest shimmered the...
¶Moscow might press the Chinese Communists to come to an agreement with the Chungking Government, thus scotching China's dangerous internal conflict.
¶In return for such help, Chungking might grant Moscow a warm-water naval base (presumably Port Arthur) and railway rights in Manchuria, thus restoring to Soviet Russia the privileges Japan had taken from her in 1905 and 1933.
¶Slated for Moscow was an amateur ornithologist and part-time farmer, the sensitive and erudite dean of Manhattan's drama critics, Brooks Atkinson, who learned about foreign reporting in censorship-cramped Chungking. (When Broadway calls Atkinson again, Drew Middleton, not so long ago an obscure A.P.man and now...