Word: dairen
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...Yalta, over a year later, Stalin bargained for Port Arthur, Dairen and the Kuril Islands in return for a promise to enter the war against Japan. "I only want to have returned to Russia what the Japanese have taken from my country," he said. "That seems," said Franklin Roosevelt, "like a very reasonable suggestion...
...order freeing them for action against the mainland, Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists on Formosa formally abrogated the 1945 treaty with Russia. The act was not a declaration of war against the U.S.S.R., but it meant that Formosa no longer recognized Russia's right to be in Dairen and Port Arthur, or any other Russian rights on the Chinese mainland, and it implied a restoration of the Chinese claim to Outer Mongolia (which, according to the 1945 treaty, was to become an independent nation but which actually has long been swallowed by Russia...
...power for Communist North Korea, but also power for Communist Manchuria. The principal target was the great Suiho power project on the south bank of the Yalu, keystone of the hydroelectric development which pipes electricity to the Chinese "Ruhr" in Manchuria, to Soviet bases in Port Arthur and Dairen, and to the Russian port of Vladivostok. It lies only 3,000 ft. from Manchurian soil. The bombers spared giant Suiho Dam itself...
...centuries Manchuria has been coveted by both peoples; it is, in fact, the marriage couch of Soviet and Chinese Communism. It may provide the first test of whether the marriage will last or fail. In Dairen and Port Arthur are stationed at least 30,000 Soviet troops under the Yalta settlement, which gave Russia the use of the two ports and a half-share in the railroads. The Russian troops are supposed to pull out in December...
...Which gave Russia the southern part of Sakhalin Island and all the Kuriles, plus control of Port Arthur and Dairen and of the strategically invaluable railroad across Manchuria...