Word: manchuria
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...Kaifeng gap before the July floods, all his work may be wiped out. At any moment, the delicate accord between Nationalists and Communists might break. From the river last week, Todd could hear bugle calls and see the dust of marching columns as the Nationalists reinforced their Manchuria garrisons. He feared that one side or the other might attempt to blow up his dikes in order to pin the blame on the opposition. But if he won his race, millions would live to bless Oliver Todd as millions had blest old Emperor Yu, who tamed the Yellow River (temporarily...
...Nationalists were winning China's Civil War. Prospects of Government control of all Manchuria (the sine qua non of a strong, independent China) were brighter last week than at any time since liberation. Yet the news from China was bad-appallingly bad. China was hurtling into economic disaster and political anarchy. Its causes: 1) Communist rebellion; 2) failure of the U.S. to send enough prompt aid; 3) the corrupt inefficiency of the National Government. Last week TIME Correspondent William Gray took a long, hard look at China. His report...
...this strangely limited (but nonetheless dangerous) civil war, negotiations and fighting blended. Was the fall of Changchun, for instance, a battle or a deal? Chiang Kai-shek had demanded that this city, the Japanese-built capital of Manchuria, be handed over to his troops as part of a new truce agreement to replace the pact that the Communists broke. No one ever announced that the Reds had agreed. But suddenly last week Chiang's General Tu Liming led his troops 67 miles in four days up Manchuria's spine. As he stormed Changchun, the Reds withdrew limply...
Meanwhile Columnists Joseph & Stewart Alsop reported: "Intelligence has just reached Washington from Manchuria . . . that among the dead left by the Chinese forces on the battlefield of Szepingkai, a great many were Soviet volunteers...
...both Iran and Manchuria, continued the Alsops, regimes pitted against the Soviet's new imperialism are helpless. "Both," they said, "could reunite their countries ... if they were not faced with the absolute certainty that determined efforts to do so would not be effectively aided by the U.S. and Great Britain, while Soviet aid to the opposition . . . would be greatly increased...