Word: manchuria
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Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was tied down in Chungking, so he asked Madame Chiang to be his good-will envoy extraordinary to Manchuria. It was the first big job she had undertaken on her own in three years. At Changchun, the Manchurian capital, it was 14° below zero and the snow lay deep. Bundled in a beaver coat, fur cap and ankle-high rubber boots, China's beautiful First Lady deplaned from her private C-47, smiled and waved to a waiting crowd...
...which could have taken off from Tokyo, scouted the U.S. West Coast from Vancouver to Los Angeles and got home again. So say the Japs. Early in July 1944, they claim, their A26 flew a record-breaking 10,160 miles nonstop in 57 hours, over a closed course* in Manchuria, and landed with enough fuel for another 1,870 miles...
...trucemakers-Government General Chang Chun, Communist General Chou Enlai, U.S. General of the Army George Catlett Marshall-had agreed on three points: 1) all hostilities would cease immediately; 2) all troop movements would also cease, except in Manchuria and south of the Yangtze, where Government sovereignty is unchallenged; 3) all lines of communications would be cleared. A commission composed of Government, Communist and U.S. representatives promptly left for Peiping to execute the agreement...
...days things went with unexpected smoothness. Then, suddenly, the road got bumpy. General Chang insisted that the Government must occupy Communist-claimed Jehol and Chahar provinces, on the flank of the overland route between North China and Manchuria. General Chou sharply dissented. Plainly upset, he stalked out. "Regrettable!" he muttered...
...Communist-claimed Jehol Province, which flanks the overland route between North China and Manchuria, Government troops were on the march-despite Communist protests. (Jehol, like Manchuria, appeared to be only thinly occupied by Communists...