Word: hans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Time for Remembrance. Next morning Premier Yen Hsi-shan flew off from Chengtu. His plane bypassed Kunming, capital of Yunnan. There only a few weeks ago the Nationalists had hoped to make their last stand. But to land last week would have been dangerous; Yunnan's Governor Lu Han was going over to the Communists, and his troops had turned their caps inside out to hide the Nationalist insignia and show their new allegiance. Lu had even tried to persuade some Szechwanese generals to seize Chiang in Chengtu and hold him for the Reds...
...hardheaded conclusion: the U.S. must increase its European imports by $2 billion a year or its own exports will wither away and European living conditions will :all to a dangerous level. Unless this is done, he said in effect, much of the good accomplished by EGA (expenditures more han $7 billion to date) will be thrown away...
...Pufang as he was settling down in his big stone headquarters outside the walls of Lanchow, gateway to the Northwest. The dying Nationalist government had appointed him supreme commander of an area about 13 times as big as Texas, mostly wasteland, underdeveloped and underpeopled (about 14 million-one-third Han Chinese, one-third Moslem Chinese, and the remainder Tibetans, Turkis, Mongolians, Kazaks). Ma's elevation put the Northwest on its own. His land was a poor holding in comparison with the lost coastal regions and lush river valleys, but, until conquered, it would be a thorn in the flesh...
...Walk, Don't Run." At Shihkiach-wang, railroad hub on the Peiping-Han-kow line some 175 miles south of Peiping, an American reported perceptible economic progress since, his visit six months earlier. The Communists had started many small industries-weaving shops, flour mills, brick kilns, foundries, machine shops-which are flourishing. He found wealthy merchants still operating. Many women had permanents which they got in reopened beauty shops...
...heavy stone without getting red in the face." His speech was part of a celebration of the return of national independence to two-thirds of Korea's 30 million people and one half of its land. In Seoul, the world's second largest bell* welcomed Tai Han Min Kook-the Republic of Korea. With General Douglas MacArthur in the reviewing stand, 10,000 soldiers marched past, and tore off their constabulary insignia to symbolize their conversion into a Korean army. But Korea's heavy stone remained; Russian forces still occupied North Korea...