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In Korea, the original decision to send in U. N. troops involved the gamble that Mao would not interface. As late as the mid-September Inchon landing relatively small Chinese reinforcements might have pushed MacArthur's troops into the sea. Peiping waited until U. N. forces approached the important Yalu...
World War III? Partial, unadmitted intervention would have some advantages in Chinese eyes. It might serve to protect the great Yalu River power dams (see map) from which Manchuria draws electric power for its factories. It might save face for the Communists in Asia, might prevent the U.N. from creating...
Last week the front pages of Red China's newspapers blossomed with "popular demands" that the Chinese army push the "U.S. imperialists" out of Korea. So far the U.N. had treated the belligerent Peking regime with anxious forbearance, and a turn-the-other-cheek mildness. But if Communist troops...
Fairbank thought the Chinese are probably anxious to protect the dams on the Yalu River in Korea which provide Manchuria with hydro-electric power. Reischauer, on the other haud, felt that "the dams aren't so terribly valuable to them so that they would risk a major war over them...
MONSTER RALLY (91 pp.)-Charles Ad-dams-Simon & Schuster ($2.95).