Word: manchuria
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Eight months after they had marched in, the Red Army prepared to march out of Changchun, Manchuria's capital. As usual, the Russians were careful to leave chaos behind. Some 2,000 airborne Chinese Government troops, aided by 5,000 local auxiliaries, were inside the city. Outside was a Chinese Communist siege army, 60,000 to 70,000 strong. Slogging up from the south to relieve their beleaguered comrades was the Government's crack, U.S.-trained First Army. At Kaiyuan, a rail stop 115 miles away, the 40,000 regulars broke through Communist lines in the first serious...
...next day Moscow Pundit Vassily Voronin warned that Russia was "surrounded by capitalist countries and reactionary forces, and their desire to redivide the world may again produce armed conflict. . . ." China announced happily that Russia had sent a note promising to evacuate Manchuria by May 1. Canada revealed that members of the Soviet spy ring not only got money from Moscow but even got instructions not to take cabs all the way to their secret meeting places...
...duties as a member of the commission, however, have not as yet been clearly defined. At the time of his sailing, he had not been told exactly what art objects the commission will attempt to recover, although documentary records of the Manchu dynasty which have been missing from Mukden, Manchuria, since the Japanese occupation, are said to be among these...
Plans & Needs. The Special Envoy reported his views on Chungking and Manchuria to President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes. But his prime reason for returning to the U.S. was to get rapid action on credits to China...
Credits & Surpluses. Premier Soong has held out no prospect save the bitter one of higher taxes and continued shortages. Reparations in kind from Japan will eventually help. But Manchuria, once the white hope of China's reconstruction, has become a liability instead of an asset, thanks to Russian stripping of Japanese-built factories. A $33,000,000 cotton loan from the U.S. Export-Import Bank promises to ease the textile situation. Most effective will be UNRRA's $562,000,000 shot in China's economic arm, but this will only start the job of rehabilitation...