Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Communist Goal. One day claims were put forth that the Communists spoke for 100,000,000 Chinese; next day the figure soared to 260,000,000 (a year ago it was 80,000,000). Communist troops pushed into Inner Mongolia and Manchuria, neared Peiping and Tientsin. It looked as if control of all China north of the Yellow River was the Communist goal...
Unfolding Hand. The swift advance of Russia's armies in Inner. Mongolia, Manchuria and Korea brought another political force to the fore. The Yenan-sponsored "Korean Independence League" (hitherto less prominent than other Korean exile groups in Chungking and Washington) suddenly emerged. It proclaimed...
Gaunt and Beautiful. The glittering Staatsoper on the Ringstrasse, which circles the inner city, had been gutted. The walls of Saint Stephen's stood gaunt and beautiful. The interior was gone. At the Chancellery a bomb had sheered away the room where Dollfuss was assassinated. One wing of the hideous neo-Roman Parliament was burned out. Both the Burgtheater and the Belvedere were in ruins. Franz Josef's Hofburg was scarred but essentially undamaged. So were Schönbrunn and the Rathaus. One bridge remained over the Danube Canal. About 70% of the inner city, where...
...exploded. Parts of the plane sheared elevator cables, and one elevator fell. One of the plane's engines crashed into an elevator shaft, screeched 79 floors, fell on the cab, carried it down to wreckage in the basement. The other engine and other heavy parts ripped through seven inner walls, then tore a hole in the south side of the building-90 feet from the point of crash. The wreckage fell in a sculptor's 12th-floor penthouse studio in a building across the street, caused another fire...
...Moscow might be proposing a territorial deal. In return for concessions in Sinkiang, Inner Mongolia, Manchuria and Korea, the Russians might support a Chinese claim in French Indo-China...