Word: dairen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other highlights of the Paddock-Gleysteen report on Dairen...
...streets teem with Russian soldiers. Dairen Chinese are now forbidden to use the old Chinese term mao-tse (literally: hairy one) when referring to Russians; Russians must be called lao-ta (literally: elder brother...
Economically, Dairen is almost completely prostrate. The port itself, once capable of berthing 50 to 60 ships, now handles about one foreign freighter and two Russian ships weekly...
Factories for Russia. Industrial production targets in a "two-year plan" for Dairen published last January ranged from 5 to 30% of Dairen's prewar output. All of the city's major factories have been either taken over outright by the Soviets or organized into a system of "Sino-Soviet Trusts...
...others received last month in Tokyo from a group of repatriated Japanese refugees. Some of the refugees were produced before a Communist rally in Tokyo, where each was paraded up on a rostrum to make a little speech. One youth tried hard to be convincing. Said he: "Living in Dairen wasn't so bad. In fact, I think things really must have been a lot better than they seemed...