Word: manchuria
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...firmer, in what one high-placed official called at least a "mildly firmer" way. He informed Moscow that the U.S. "cannot remain indifferent" to Russia's continued occupation of Iran. He reminded Moscow a second time that the U.S. did not like the way Russian troops were stripping Manchuria...
Armies, navies and air forces maneuvered from Dairen to Labrador; Russia countered a U.S. charge of undue meddling in Manchuria with a charge that the U.S. had done the same in Bulgaria. Moscow again claimed that Russian forces had stayed in Manchuria at Chinese request, and alleged that "fascist" armies were being maintained in the U.S. and British zones of Germany. The Greek elections wavered toward postponement because of a leftist boycott; chancelleries puzzled what to do next with Rightist Dictators Franco and Perón. The Danes politely asked Russia to loosen her grip on Bornholm island; the Iranians...
...Manchuria, Red Army units were about to hold vast sham battles...
From Mukden's railway station many trains chugged northward last week. Their cars were jammed with trucks, bicycles, ammunition-and Russians. The Soviet Army was evacuating Manchuria's largest metropolis, leaving the stunned, hungry, overcrowded city to the Chinese...
Ravaged, still-disputed Manchuria was the ugliest wound that would have to heal before the pattern of Chinese unity could be complete. To heal other sore spots in Shansi, Honan and Hupeh provinces, tireless U.S. Peacemaker George Marshall toured North China, working in the difficult lower political levels to win practical realization of the military truce he and China's top leaders had arranged. Amid his stops was isolated Yenan, capital of Chinese Communism. There he remained overnight, caught cold watching an elaborate performance of drum dancers and folk singers in an icy auditorium, had a long talk with...