Word: manchuria
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...Christian peace, he added a number of fortifying practical factors: a Carthaginian peace would breed misery and poverty, which in turn would breed Communism. If Japan should fall that way, the result would be disastrous for the West. Japan's industrial potential, integrated with the resources of Manchuria, might be enough to enable the Communists to sustain a long world war, even...
...which China recognized the independence of Korea, ceded Formosa, the Pescadores Islands and the Liaotung Peninsula (in Manchuria) to Japan, and agreed to pay Japan a heavy cash indemnity...
...overwhelming Chinese onslaught last year, and turned his troops north again. To Ridgway, as to any soldier, the best way to finish the job in Korea could only be to defeat the enemy. Ridgway knew that, with more ground strength in Korea-and perhaps with air blows at Manchuria-he could drive the Chinese back behind the Yalu. Yet, with the Chinese licking the wounds that Ridgway's punches had inflicted on them, he was trying to negotiate a truce. The job was not designed for the liking of a hardhitting combat leader, but Good Soldier Ridgway...
Major General Paik Sun Yup, 32, Commander, Republic of Korea I Corps, was born in Pyongyang and was graduated from the Japanese Military Academy in Manchuria (1941). Served as a lieutenant with the Japanese army in China in World War II. He is considered one of Korea's ablest field commanders, is also a fluent linguist (Japanese, Chinese, English and Korean...
...mass flight of U.S. prop-driven Mustangs just north of Pyongyang when Gabreski and his Sabres roared to the rescue. In short order Gabby knocked out one MIG-his first kill in Korea. His teammates shot down two more, damaged a third and sent the others streaking home to Manchuria...