Word: manchuria
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...course the supreme conundrum of our time. We ask it in Manchuria . . . eastern Europe . . . Italy . . . Iran . . . Tripolitania . . . the Baltic and the Balkans . . . Poland . . . Canada . . . Japan. We can ask it sometimes even in connection with events in our own United States...
...fear had been sharpened anew last week by such varied signs of Russian aggressiveness as her pressure on Iran, and Manchuria (see FOREIGN NEWS), her continued use of Communists in other countries for Russian ends, and a strongly documented report from Vienna by New York Timesman John MacCormac on Russian tactics that had killed any early hope of restoring Austria's independence...
Last week the only two nations carving out new foreign privileges in East Asia were the Soviet Russians and the Chinese. In Manchuria the Russians had taken back many of the Tsar's concessions-a naval base at Port Arthur, a free port at Dairen, a 30-year partnership in the main Manchurian railways. They were asking for more-reportedly for control of Manchurian heavy industry, long regarded as the key to China's future...
...Chinese tension was mounting over revelation of the Yalta deal, in which the U.S. and Britain had highhandedly agreed to give Russia concessions in the territory of their ally (see INTERNATIONAL). Chinese indignation was heightened by the continued failure of Soviet troops to honor their pledge and quit Manchuria. Seven high Government officials had signed a petition denouncing the Yalta pact as a "dark stain" on U.S. and British relations with China...
...Government high command tried to keep cool. The Foreign Office said that "no agreement of views" had been reached with Moscow about disposition of Manchurian industry. Meanwhile Chiang was having trouble with right-wing, anticoalition elements in the Kuomintang. Uncertainty in Manchuria had brought them into open opposition. The agreement for army unity might provoke them to a bitter last stand...