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Word: kwantung (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...welcome," promised the governor of Kwantung Province. "Even those who have been spies are not excluded, so long as they don't carry out their activities this time." By last week, as the fair drew to a close, some 20,000 had jumped at the offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Come to the Fair | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...reactionary armed force [guerillas] some 140,000 or 150,000 strong, apparently well-trained and well-organized." was operating in the hilly East River area of Kwantung province (East Kwantung Peasant Daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: They Have Troubles Too | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...More than 40" members of the anti-Red "Youth Vanguard Society" in southern Kwantung and Hunan provinces were arrested and accused of operating in at least six cities (Peking People's Daily, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: They Have Troubles Too | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

Died. General Kuniaki Koiso, 70, one of the fanatic militarists who led the Japanese Empire into war and destruction; of a chest tumor; in Tokyo, where he was serving time on a life sentence for war crimes. Wizened, jovial Warmonger Koiso commanded Japan's famed Kwantung army in Manchuria, earned the title "The Tiger" because of his cat's eyes and ruthless behavior as governor general of Japanese-occupied Korea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 13, 1950 | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

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