Word: dairen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year, steel production 67% and coal production 72%. Ironore production, added Peking, stood at 76.5 million tons, three times the figure for all of 1958. And just to show that nothing is too small to be transformed by the Marxist miracle, Mao's drumbeaters reported that near Dairen in Manchuria there stands a marvelous tree laden with 12,175 apples-somehow counted though still unpicked...
...Communists openly defy the truce by moving in forbidden troops and supplies, the U.S. likes to keep an aerial watch on the enemy. The Chinese Communists do not like to have intruders flying over the northern half of the Yellow Sea, in the vicinity of Port Arthur and Dairen or the big MIG base at Antung, but the U.S. insists on its right to fly over international waters...
...laid out in full detail and traced on a map by Stalin in a conversation with Ambassador Harriman on Dec. 14, 1944. Items on the Kremlin's demand list: "return" to Russia of Japan's Kurils and southern Sakhalin; leases on Manchuria's Port Arthur and Dairen, plus operating rights on the Manchurian railways; China's surrender of its claims to Sovietized Outer Mongolia...
Roosevelt quickly replies there is "no difficulty whatsoever" over the Kurils and southern Sakhalin. As to Dairen, it ought to be a free port...
...Stalin] said that he was entirely willing to have Dairen a freeport under international control, but that Port Arthur was different. It was to be a Russian naval base, and therefore Russia required a lease. I suggested to Marshal Stalin that he take the opportunity to discuss this matter at once with the President, which he thereupon did. The President agreed to Marshal Stalin's revised proposal...