Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...books were on hand July 1, 1932; at the present time, the Chinese-Japanese Library (housed for the last two years in a new, fire-proof wing at 2 Divinity Ave.), owns more than 350,000 volumes. Endowment income annually brings about 15 or 16 young Chinese, Japanese, or Korean professors to Cambridge...
...real name. The real Kim II Sung was a Korean guerrilla who bravely fought the Japanese occupiers in the 1919 uprising. The Communist interloper who took over power in 1948 simply swiped his name...
Rival Patrons. North Korea is the Communist satellite where the struggle for paramountcy between Russia and China is most apparent, and it has benefited by the competition. The Chinese "volunteers" shed their blood in great numbers during the Korean war, but the Russians have long had the upper hand. Chinese Communist officers sit with North Koreans across the table from American and other United Nations representatives in the green truce-talks hut at Panmunjom. But Russia has hitherto provided most of North Korea's arms, including MIGs. and all of Pyongyang Radio's praise has gone to Moscow for "truly...
...Chinese are trying to stage a comeback. Last month Peking announced a $105 million loan to North Korea and dispatched a high-powered military mission to Pyongyang to celebrate the tenth anniversary of China's entry into the Korean war. The loan will raise China's contribution to the North Korean economy to around $500 million v. $750 million from Russia. Last week Moscow riposted with an announcement that the Soviet Union has waived repayment by North Korea of one $190 million Russian loan, agreed to defer repayment of an-other $35 million...
...reach its expected output of just over 100 million tons in 1960, the steel industry will have to operate at about 70% capacity for the year. Yet the industry operated at 100.9% of capacity in the Korean wartime year of 1951 to produce only a shade more-105.2 million tons...