Word: condominium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, by the Persian Gulf, lies the "neutral zone"-a condominium of Arabia's King Ibn Saud and Kuwait's Sheik Sir Ahmad al Jabir-al-Subah. There, last week, business looked cracking good...
...replied that China was ready to negotiate over "special regions." He implied that Russia could have back her pre-1937 railway rights in Manchuria. He suggested a condominium for Outer Mongolia (over which Chungking claims sovereignty). But its Soviet-dominated government must sign a mutual assistance pact with Chungking similar to the one it had signed with Moscow. He conceded that Korea should be independent. But T.V. could not agree to special political status for Russia in Sinkiang, which would jeopardize China's sovereign rights. Nor could he assent to naval or air bases for Russia in Manchuria...
Political tremors in Sinkiang disturb all the neighboring countries. Behind the current seismic shocks is a history that goes back to 1934, when China, then already started on her life & death struggle with Japan, could only stand by as the Soviet Union virtually set up a condominium over the vast province...
...promised to restore their freedom "in due course." In Chungking, greying Kim Koo, head of a Korean provisional government, declared that Koreans want "full and immediate independence" after the war. But strategic Korea, after long years of bondage, seems more likely to become the ward of an international condominium until she has learned the ways of self government again...