Word: manchuria
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...delegate, Jimmy Byrnes appointed Major General Frank McCoy, 70, U.S.A. (retired), who in his 41 years of active duty in many countries was sometimes referred to as "the Army's ablest diplomat." McCoy was on the Lytton Commission which tried to do something about the Japs in Manchuria in 1932. He was on the Roberts Commission which made the first investigation of Pearl Harbor, is now president of the Foreign Policy Association...
...Giants. Two recently isolated giants, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., were suddenly everywhere. Russia was claiming colonies in Africa, making friends among the Arabs, gripping eastern Eu rope, regaining its economic position in Manchuria, actively concerning itself with the control of Japan. The U.S., which five years ago seemed half-indifferent, was now insistently expressing its views on the internal politics of Balkan countries, expanding its influence in the Middle East, preparing to keep great island bases oppo site Russia's back door...
...accordance with the new Russian-Chinese treaty, Moscow said that the Red Army last week began evacuating Manchuria...
...false front of modernism, they learned, was a race track beyond the East Gate. The Japs took their horses away, so it is closed. Near the South Gate, called Nam Tai Moon, the brick railway station was seething with refugees and other travelers. Nobody was northbound-that way lay Manchuria. Only a handful of Russian liaison officers-no troops-had appeared in Seoul. When one carload neared the city, they were politely turned back...
Prize criminal of the week: General Kenji Doihara, Japan's "Lawrence of Manchuria," a sinister intelligence operative and advance agent for Japan's Asiatic conquests. He drove into Yokohama in a limousine and surrendered...