Word: manchuria
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...with the President. So did Chief of Staff General Ike Eisenhower. Winston Churchill came in to say thanks and goodbye. At week's end General of the Army George C. Marshall, back from China, hurried from his plane to give the President 65 minutes of bad news from Manchuria and fair news from China (see INTERNATIONAL...
...March 11 after a final conference with Generalissimo Chiang and Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, U.S. commander in the China Theater, the Special Envoy emplaned for the U.S. At the very last moment, he scored another success. Government and Communist negotiators agreed to extend the truce machinery to Manchuria. There the slowly evacuating Russians have left behind a situation which George Marshall openly Calls "critical." Meanwhile in Chungking this week, Communist General Chou kept the pot simmering by accusing the Kuomintang of seeking to continue "one-party dictatorship...
...were inquiring foreign Jews welcome visitors. Nevertheless, the Soviet Union has intermittently encouraged its own citizens to settle there. Between 1928 and 1933, 19,000 of them did so; the cold winds blew 12,000 of them back. After 1931, when the Japanese across the Amur River in Manchuria were considered a threat to the Trans-Siberian Railroad, the Soviet Government sold land and the necessary farming equipment to Jewish settlers in Birobidjan for a less-than-cost fee of $200. But by 1939 the total population of Birobidjan, including earlier, non-Jewish settlers, had reached only...
...long last, the foreign press invaded Soviet-occupied Manchuria. After months of Red tape and runarounds, 22 correspondents and photographers found it deceptively easy to push aside the iron curtain that had kept them out. With a hesitant Godspeed from the Chinese, they boarded northbound trains at Chinchow for sightseeing tours of Mukden, and Changchun, the capital...
Last week, as the newsmen straggled back to Shanghai and Peiping, bitter stories and shocking pictures showed up in the U.S. press. Getting at the news in liberated, looted Manchuria had been a grim business. Some of the correspondents wrote as if they had shared a nightmare...