Word: manchuria
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...leader of its delegation, and Joseph Stalin, who had affably joined the long-dickering sessions, looked on as Molotov and China's Foreign Minister Wang Shih-chieh wrote their names. For the Chinese it was pretty much of a mockery-the terms which gave Russia a stranglehold in Manchuria had already been laid out by the Big Three at Yalta without China's concurrence...
...suggestion of General George C. Kenney that the U.S. should bomb Communist bases in Manchuria: "[It is] no way to end the [Korean] conflict unless we are prepared to put 5,000,000 men in there on the ground." As to General Kenney, who headed World War II Pacific air operations, Truman slurred him off as "MacArthur's flyboy...
...started in October 1946 . . . But this island had been closed behind a kind of Iron Curtain by the Japanese ever since the Manchuria incident in 1931, so there were very few people with even a fair reading knowledge of English . . . By good luck we got an excellent American professor, Mr. W. Dorland, who came to Formosa from Peking. We opened a night English school and it was an immediate success, enrolling from 300 to 400 students per month. Our magazine sales began increasing rapidly...
...implied comparison of his own foreign policy and that of F.D.R. Sketching in the background of the U.S. decision to intervene in Korea-"the decision I believe was the most important in my time as President"-Truman recalled the easy conquests of aggressor nations in the 1930s-Manchuria, Ethiopia, the Rhineland, Austria, Czechoslovakia. He went on: "Think about those years of weakness and indecision and World War II. which was their evil result. Then think about the speed and courage and decisiveness with which we have moved against the Communist threat since World...
Most important of all, though, was the decision to intervene in Korea. Had the Communist challenge not been faced, had Korea suffered as Manchuria did almost two decades before, the ideal of collective security would surely have died. Investing the Security Council's power in the UN Assembly, where the veto cannot embalm action, allowed the United States to seek and receive the moral support for the Korean venture which only an international assembly can confer. These measures clearly mark the change in attitude from pre-war shilly-shally to today's resolve...