Word: manchuria
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...opinion that the Japs will not accept the terms. Personally, I hope they do not. Although we have certainly destroyed their fleet and are in a fair way to destroy their industry, none of the major ground forces have yet been defeated. If the Kwantung Army [in Manchuria] comes out of this without being defeated and the Japanese homeland itself is not invaded, I feel that we will be heading for trouble in another 40 years...
...replied that China was ready to negotiate over "special regions." He implied that Russia could have back her pre-1937 railway rights in Manchuria. He suggested a condominium for Outer Mongolia (over which Chungking claims sovereignty). But its Soviet-dominated government must sign a mutual assistance pact with Chungking similar to the one it had signed with Moscow. He conceded that Korea should be independent. But T.V. could not agree to special political status for Russia in Sinkiang, which would jeopardize China's sovereign rights. Nor could he assent to naval or air bases for Russia in Manchuria...
...Moscow might be proposing a territorial deal. In return for concessions in Sinkiang, Inner Mongolia, Manchuria and Korea, the Russians might support a Chinese claim in French Indo-China...
...return for such help, Chungking might grant Moscow a warm-water naval base (presumably Port Arthur) and railway rights in Manchuria, thus restoring to Soviet Russia the privileges Japan had taken from...
...European war." A regional defense system had been readied; the invaders would have to reduce resistance district by district. The food supply was being safeguarded. The capital's flattened industrial areas, cried Radio Tokyo, were being converted into fishponds and rice paddies. Strategic industry was being transferred to Manchuria...