Word: manchuria
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...Manchuria's mightiest industrial enterprise is the Japanese-built Fushun Combine-a nexus of aluminum, shale oil, steel and power plants based on the world's biggest open-pit coal mine. The Russians stripped Fushun of much of its heavy machinery, let its coal production fall from 10,000 tons to 1,000 tons a day. Last month their army pulled out, leaving behind 20-odd Soviet mine and railroad officials with orders to operate the Combine jointly with the Chinese. But the technicians sent in by Chungking had other ideas. TIME Correspondent Richard Lauterbach cabled this story...
...Chiang Kai-shek and Mme. Chou En-lai-wife of Communist China's No. 1 negotiator-joined last week at Chungking's windy Paishihyi airfield to greet General George C. Marshall and his handsome, hazel-eyed wife, Katherine. Soldier-Diplomat Marshall, after a nightlong Peiping study of Manchuria's erupting war, was less impressed by tea-drinking at the top levels than by bullets in the boondocks...
...three-year-old League had been too timid to rebuke him, so France and Britain had elbowed it aside to push the aggressor out themselves. Paraguay and Bolivia had fought a three-year war over South America's Chaco without interference. And Japan had marched calmly into Manchuria and out of Geneva. "The League," said Delegate Matsuoka then, "has done an awful thing. ... It has attempted to elevate itself to a superstate. Is the world at this stage really prepared to accept...
...There Is No Peace. The veteran Communist negotiator in Chungking, General Chou Enlai, openly proclaimed an all-out struggle for control in Manchuria, where the Russians were slowly pulling out. Factional bitterness was weirdest at Kaiyuan, Manchuria, where the Government's U.S.-trained First Army had broken through a Communist blockade on the road north. There, when a Government-Communist-U.S. truce team arrived, the First Army's commander promptly put the Communist trucemakers in protective confinement, lest they be shot or captured by Communist forces...
During the election campaign Progressive politicians had openly called for the return to Japan of Korea and Manchuria...