Word: manchuria
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...forceful summation of all the free world's unlearned lessons over the past three decades, Rusk reminded NATO's Foreign Ministers at their year-end council meeting: "Ask yourself what your national interests are in the Viet Nam conflict. Ask yourself what were our interests in Manchuria in 1931 and in Ethiopia in 1936. Ask yourself what were your national interests as Hitler made his aggressive progress. In those days, we as governments did not recognize our national interests-and look at the price we paid...
...Once again we hear expressed the views which cost the men of my generation a terrible price in World War II. We are told that Southeast Asia is far away-but so were Manchuria and Ethiopia. We are told that if we prove faithless on one commitment, that perhaps others would believe us about other commitments in other places...
...Mobile Colossus. As China's armed forces are now disposed, the heaviest concentration-roughly six armies-is opposite Formosa. Four armies are positioned along the North Korean border and another five spread west through Manchuria and Inner Mongolia. Three armies hold rebellious Tibet, and those massed in south China total seven-one guards vulnerable Hainan Island, another is stationed in mountainous Yunnan province, and three are lined up along the North Vietnamese border. Two other armies are in reserve near Canton...
...same principle of isolation or, as Mr. Lippmann puts it, "the study of our vital interests," [Jan. 8] that history has blamed for the outbreak of World War II. If we had stepped in when Japan took over Manchuria, if we had said something when Hitler marched into the Rhineland, if we had done something when Hitler was allowed to take the Sudetenland, if, if, if-and now, if we let the Communists take Viet Nam, what will history say about us then...
...bomb. Peking's 2,500,000-man army, backed by 15 million reservists, police and militiamen, is the largest ground force in the world. Supported by four artillery and armored divisions (the latter mostly equipped with Russian T-34 tanks), the forces are presently placed in Manchuria, around Peking, along the coast between Shanghai and Canton, in South China, and in the southwest opposite India. Since early this year, they have been undergoing intensified small-unit training. Though their military equipment is largely World War II vintage and their supply lines would be vulnerable to modern air power...