Word: hinterlands
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Farther south, in the strategic Shantung peninsula, communications were paralyzed. There the Communists held the important harbor of Chefoo. But the more important harbor of Tsingtao was occupied by U.S. marines, under able Major General Keller E. Rockey. In the hinterland Central Government provincial troops struggled with Communists astride the main railway running "south from Tientsin through Tsinan, Shantung's capital...
Signs multiplied that Moscow was disturbed at the growth of independence in the hinterland between Europe's east and west. The problem of handling a vigorous Opposition on Russia's doorstep called for more delicate treatment than the Kremlin was accustomed to prescribe...
...China since 1927. His capital, Kunming, was the biggest U.S. air base in the country, and during the war he had played host to many a U.S. officer and touring bigwig. Last week Chiang deposed the "old dragon" of Yunnan, completing a political conquest of the vast western hinterland...
...open door to Africa." Of Trees & Brooks. The Trieste issue had descended to a technical problem much too minute to be handled at the Truman-Stalin-Attlee level. The city would almost certainly be internationalized, but its ultimate fate would depend on where lines were drawn in its hinterland. Racial and historical factors moved strings back & forth over detailed maps of Venetia Julia province. The watercourses were most important, because the nation that controlled them would be able to shut off Trieste's water supply...
...will China have internal stability? What industry will be left intact? (Can the steel mills and railway shops of Manchuria be operated immediately? How long will it take to harness the textile factories of coastal China, with their 5,000,000 spindles compared to the 300,000 in the hinterland?) How much aid-in technical advice, credits and materials-will come from...