Word: manchuria
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...Chiang's troops could take Manchuria without U.S. help, Washington had no problem. But Washington knew how desperately Chiang's armies needed equipment, how lack of transport virtually immobilized his main forces. The U.S. would not be content to see enemies of the Chinese Government acquire Manchuria, which can produce far more arms than all the rest of China. Control of Manchuria by Chinese Communists would constitute a major power shift in the Far East...
...Under his present directive, he could not use U.S. forces to help the Central Government enter Manchuria, in the face of growing Communist attacks on communication lines...
...does not implement a strong policy, Generalissimo Chiang's forces will be driven from Manchuria, and perhaps all North China, by the Communists. China will be divided...
...Russians were withdrawing from Manchuria, the focal point of China's civil war (see INTERNATIONAL), Chinese Communists were taking over in their wake...
Meanwhile, U.S.-trained Central Government troops were marching into the vast, rich region. With them was TIME Correspondent William Gray, the first American newsman to enter Manchuria. His report: It is a strange warfare that has taken China's Thirteenth and Fifty-Second Armies into southwest Manchuria on the road to Mukden. Thus far it is largely rifle warfare, and the front moves rapidly. You do not see shell holes or blasted buildings or wrecked vehicles or hospitals or bloating corpses. Only rarely are there wounded...