Word: manchuria
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Communist armies gripped Harbin, junction of Manchuria's rail network. Communist guerrillas harried water traffic on the Yangtze and the Grand Canal, roved menacingly near the rail arteries connecting Tientsin, Tsingtao and other ports with inland centers, such as Mukden and Tsinan. Red troops cut off Nanking and Shanghai from western China...
...Army's sweep through Manchuria swept up, among other industrial loot, a Japanese optical-goods factory at Mukden. On the guard-box at the factory entrance (see cut) Russian soldiers painted Prince Alexander Nevsky's triumphant boast after his Russians had crushed the invading Teutonic Knights at Lake Peipus...
...salvage crew and empty freight train. These instruments of conquest, like the sword, could summon up bitter resistance. Russia's eagerness to grab industrial equipment might get in the way of her more important program of political expansion. And Russia, wolfing her conquests in eastern Europe and Manchuria, hungered for still more that was outside the boardinghouse reach of the Red Army...
Last week the U.S. added new counts to its indictment of the Russian grab. Washington protested Russia's stripping of Hungary (see FOREIGN NEWS), and Edwin W. Pauley, chief U.S. reparations surveyor, charged that Russia's looting of Manchuria had stopped the wheels of $2 billion worth of industries and set back by a generation the industrial advancement of 900 million Asiatics...
General George Marshall's sharp eye saw a chance for Chinese peace. Chiang Kai-shek was willing to halt his armies in Manchuria for seven days; Communist Negotiator Chou En-lai wanted a one-month armistice. Marshall asked shrewd Dr. Lo Lung-chi, head of the pink-tinged Democratic League, to help him work out a compromise. Together they led the rival leaders to a middle ground: a 15-day truce in Manchuria...