Word: manchuria
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...first session had given a reasonable hope that the nations might be able to get along with each other. But last week, in & out of UNO, came a series of Russian moves, from Canada to Syria to Manchuria, that added up to a worldwide Russian power drive. When the week ended, international relations were at their worst point since...
...Russians knew it. Because they did not want a showdown with the U.S., the Russians had behaved with relative restraint in the delicate negotiations between the Chinese National Government and the Chinese Communist Party. Now they vastly complicated those negotiations by postponing the Red Army's withdrawal from Manchuria and by asking for further concessions in the richest industrial area of the Far Eastern mainland. Not only had they failed to withdraw on Feb. 1, as they had promised, but there were reports that the Red Army was rebuilding Manchurian installations which it had dismantled in preparation for departure...
...Dreamland. For Shanghai's emigres, it was truly an era's end. Penniless and wretched, they had come down from Siberia and Manchuria. In what was then the French Concession and International Settlement they had set up a bit of old Russia, full of hate for the new Russia. Blue-blooded officers became janitors and doormen, ex-millionaires turned waiters, titled ladies opened delicatessens, hairdressing salons and apparel shops like Avenue Joffre's "Madame Fanny Corsets...
...Mother Russia, who always knows best, want them back? Many of the reclaimed believed that they would be resettled in Manchuria, where the Commissars now had a stake as big as that of the Tsars. Explained a Soviet newspaperwoman in Shanghai: "Manchuria is the dreamland for every Russian who has been there. The climate is good. There is work-where the railways are there will always be work, hospitals and universities. I think many will go to Manchuria. That would go very well with our Sino-Russian cultural relations, don't you think...
...Market. The exact shape of the new Sino-Russian relations in Manchuria were still not clear. Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, at a notable press interview (see above), admitted that in "informal" talks the Russians had asked the Chinese Government for additional economic concessions in Manchuria...