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...fault lay more with the Kuomintang [Chiang's party] . . . than with the so-called Communists." Stalin did not argue. If this was Roosevelt's view, then world Communism would know how the U.S. stood when the Red Axis began to destroy Chiang with the concessions in Manchuria that Roosevelt made at Yalta-also behind Chiang's back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Yalta Story: The Peace Was Lost By Ignoring Justice And the Facts of Life | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

...later, Stalin repeated the pledge. He also let it be known that he would like a warm-water port in the Far East. Churchill remarked that Russia already had Vladivostok. Stalin replied it wasn't always ice-free. Roosevelt suggested the Russians might have access to Dairen, in Manchuria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Yalta Story: The Far East | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

...East. These were finally laid out in full detail and traced on a map by Stalin in a conversation with Ambassador Harriman on Dec. 14, 1944. Items on the Kremlin's demand list: "return" to Russia of Japan's Kurils and southern Sakhalin; leases on Manchuria's Port Arthur and Dairen, plus operating rights on the Manchurian railways; China's surrender of its claims to Sovietized Outer Mongolia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Yalta Story: The Far East | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

...Japanese aggression to want to do much business again. "No amount of amnesia on our part," a Japanese newspaper reminded its readers recently, "will erase the impressions made on the minds of the injured parties." World War II wiped out Japan's captive markets in Korea, Formosa and Manchuria, and the cold war has closed the door to trade with mainland China. Yet the old cries of Japanese underselling are still heard) Item: in Dublin last week, the Irish Rosary Council protested that even a 37.5% import duty was insufficient to keep out Japanese rosaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Land of the Reluctant Sparrows | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

...violence," says Premier Hatoyama. "Right now I see no reason for regarding China as an enemy." Desire for Neutralism. Looking ahead, some Westerners fear a revived Japanese appetite for conquest, but the appetite, if it exists, would be hard to gratify without the great war-making resources of Manchuria and the food-producing potential of Formosa, which are both now lost to Japan. A livelier concern to the U.S. is the possibility that an independent Japan might one day be drawn too close to the Communist mainland. In Communist theorizing, Japan, the Ruhr of the Orient, is the big prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Land of the Reluctant Sparrows | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

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