Word: dairen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...readers, F.D.R. was doing his utmost to enlist Russia's aid in the war against Japan (the atom bomb had not been finally developed). Stalin laid down his terms. In addition to Japanese-mandated southern Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands, Stalin wanted title to the Chinese ports of Dairen and Port Arthur, use of the Manchurian railways. Otherwise Stalin did not see how he could ever explain to his people why Russia was going to war against Japan...
...people can muster a smile now. But nobody could find cause for confidence; the Chinese talked of cold homes, high and rising prices, the failing electricity supply. Seven provincial governors wait to enter provinces which the Communists hold, and the appointed mayors of Harbin and Soviet Dairen are also stalled in Mukden. Some talked about "the good old days" from 1932 to '45 under the Japanese...
...Manchuria the situation is altogether different. Government troops hold most of South Manchuria, except Dairen and Port Arthur which are occupied by the troops of the Soviet Union. But Communist troops hold all the rest of Manchuria, except a long finger-shaped salient from Mukden to Kirin. This salient follows what was once the major railroad of Manchuria, passing through Szepingkai and Changchun. It is a railroad no longer. Communists have destroyed every bridge north of a point 30 miles to the south of Szepingkai. Most of the ties have been burned, and many of the rails twisted by placing...
...than at any time in the 19 months since General Tu Yu-ming's troops recovered control from the Japanese. General Tu still held Mukden and Changchun (the capital), but the Communists camped on his line of communication with the south. Manchuria's great seacoast city of Dairen was still in Russian hands. There was little chance that General Tu could take Dairen if Russia did leave. General Tu's men were busy digging trenches and even medieval moats around the cities they still held, not looking for more cities to conquer...
...Shams & Frauds. "In the Far East, the Soviet Union has dismantled the industries in Manchuria, has obstructed economic and political unification in Korea, and has not carried out its commitments for the return of Dairen to Chinese administration as a free port. . . . In the Middle East, Persia has been for some years in turmoil, first through Soviet occupation of its "northern territories, and then through Soviet-sponsored local attempts to separate those areas from Persia...