Word: manchuria
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Back home in Japan, Pianist Toshiko, 27, used to listen to all of them on records -Oscar Peterson, Erroll Garner, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie. She would take down the melodies and try to decide why they improvised as they did. Her father was an industrialist in Manchuria, and she studied classical piano there until the family was forced to return to Japan by the Chinese civil war. Toshiko prepared for medical school, but when she got a job playing with a dance band at the U.S. Army officers' club, she decided she wanted to be a pianist instead...
Everything was over with the Baltic barons. Erick goes on to international adventuring with a gun for hire in Spain, the Gran Chaco and Manchuria, not with any ideological passion but simply because for one of his birth and background, there seems to be nothing else to do. His is a fable of one who survived-but did not live...
...allies during the first and second world wars, yet the Soviet Union insists that China must pay interest on Soviet loans." He would like to know, Lung added, whether the U.S.S.R. intended to reimburse China for the "huge quantities of industrial equipment" which were carted out of Manchuria by Soviet troops after World...
...German law at Tokyo University, graduated at the top of his class (1920). With offers of teaching posts, he chose the civil service, joined the Agriculture and Commerce Ministry as a clerk, rose rapidly, toured (1926-27) in the U.S. and Europe studying the steel industry. Posted to Manchuria in 1937, he was a top economic czar of the Japanese-occupied territory. In 1939, aged 42, astute Kishi returned to Japan as Vice Minister of Commerce and Industry...
Chiang apportions blame among Russian maneuvers, Japanese aggression, Chinese dupes and traitors, U.S. naiveté-including Yalta's giveaway of Manchuria and the disastrous U.S. attempt (the Marshall mission) to mediate between the Nationalists and the Reds. But he does not dodge his own responsibility, charges himself with the basic fault of again and again having dealt with Russia and the Communists as men of good will. Each time the Chinese Reds were nearly defeated, "coexistence"' again saved them: "We were overconfident . . . We erred in being too lenient...