Word: harbin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then the Senators began wandering through Lee's intriguing past: he had been born Ephraim Zinovi Liberman in Harbin, Manchuria (in 1907), had gone to Moscow briefly in 1930 under a Chinese identity card and the name of Li Hoi-min. Twice he was refused U.S. citizenship because, said the court, he was "not attached to the principles of the U.S. Constitution" (presumably because his first wife had divorced him on grounds of physical cruelty). In 1941 he was naturalized at last. The Senators hinted that Lee, in Commerce, had held up aviation gasoline shipments to Nationalist China...
...Russian air force units, of major strength, are centered in Manchuria's Tsitsihar-Harbin area. They help train Chinese airmen...
...when two other former Communists testified that he was a party member and that they had seen him at party meetings. ¶Granite-faced, big-eared Michael Lee had been cleared in one Commerce Department loyalty check before he became involved recently in a second one. Born in Harbin, Manchuria of Russian parents and christened Ephraim Zinovi Liberman, Lee had failed three times in bids for U.S. citizenship (grounds: he was not of "good character" and was not "attached to the principles of the Constitution"). Lee changed his name, married an American, and on the fourth try achieved citizenship. Only...