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Earlier in the week, two other U.S. consular officials arrived in Tokyo after 14 months in the nominally Chinese Manchurian port of Dairen...
...North China, the Sino-Soviet Friendship Associations were way ahead. Dairen's association claimed a membership of more than 200,000. This month in Dairen is "Sino-Soviet Friendship Month." A campaign is under way to have citizens "publicize, learn from and support Soviet Russia!" Peiping recently staged a gigantic Soviet exhibition "to introduce systematically the great socialist construction of the U.S.S.R." Madame Sun's presence and her exhortation for Chinese and Russians to march ahead as "comrades-in-arms" topped the propaganda campaign. For her labors, the Red press hailed her as "the Exalted Widow...
Part of the price the U.S. had paid Joseph Stalin at Yalta was a promise that the U.S. would support Russia's bid for a "special position" in Manchuria: control of the South Manchurian Railroad, Dairen and Port Arthur. Told about this deal months later, Chiang Kai-shek reluctantly accepted. Further, when the Russians marched into Manchuria, three days after the atom bomb on Hiroshima, they disarmed the Japanese, then handed the arms to the Chinese Communists. Chiang was not surprised. Even when both he and the Reds were arrayed against the Japanese, Chiang used to say: "The Japanese...
...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...
Roosevelt thought it could be arranged. On the question of whether Roosevelt had discussed any of these matters with Chiang Kaishek, Sherwood is confusing; he first reports yes on Dairen, later no. At any rate, the conferees discussed whether Chiang Kai-shek should be told...