Word: dairen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason why the Dairen incident was not an incident is also a pretty reason -chiefly that the U.S., engaged with Russia in the battle for Europe, does not want a major test in the Far East...
...Scripps-Howard's William H. Newton. The first report came from Newton. His story: while her captain negotiated to land the businessman, the LC-3 1090 overstayed its 48-hour permit by two hours. Thereupon the Russians gave Commander Edgar Yates, senior naval officer aboard, an ultimatum: "Leave Dairen in 20 minutes or we won't be responsible for the consequences." The LC-3 1090 left...
Tush, tush, said a bland U.S. State Department spokesman next day, there was no ultimatum; the Russians were entirely within their rights. Later, Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson admitted that the State Department had had no official communication from Dairen on which to base these statements...
...equipped Sixth and Fifty-second Armies broke the Manchurian stalemate. With surprising but by now familiar ease they captured Antung, Red China's only major Manchurian port, then pushed south (toward the Soviet-controlled port of Dairen) to clear lesser harbors. In what obviously was a coordinated offensive, other Nationalist armies closed in on Chefoo, across the Yellow Sea from Antung on the Shantung Peninsula. Once again U.S. equipment and training was in evidence-the Chefoo attackers splashed ashore from old Navy landing boats...
...great city of Harbin would fall to the Chinese Communists when the Russians pull out this week. For the moment, at least, the Nationalists were confined to the western and northern coastal area of the Liaotung Gulf, save only for the blunted column reaching from Mukden along the Dairen-Harbin railroad toward Changchun. The Communists-with 300,000 troops already in Manchuria-were siphoning in more, by land from the northwest, by sea from Shantung Peninsula to the Liaoning province port of Antung. The Nationalists had two more armies en route, five already in the field...