Word: manchuria
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WANG is about 25 years old, with less than five years of schooling behind him. Back home in Manchuria he was a farmer, and all he wants today is to go back to the fields where he left his wife and baby daughter to tend the millet crop. He volunteered for the army in February 1950-to spare his family social disgrace in his village-but he never took to army life. He discussed his dislike of fighting with other soldiers who agreed, but he had to be careful not to talk to the wrong soldiers, i.e., dedicated members...
...Great Benefactor." Army instructors told Wang that the imperialistic aggressors were overrunning Korea and, if not stopped, would march into Manchuria and burn the villages. His knowledge of Stalin was vague, but the army told him that Stalin was a great benefactor...
...Bombing Manchuria & China: "We do not believe the extension of [the war] by bombing would get decisive results. We have about 200 miles of enemy supply lines to workmen now and you would only extend that length back into Manchuria . . . Normally, you think of strategic bombing as going after the sources of production. The sources of production in this case are very largely out of reach of any strategic bombing because they are not even in China [i.e., they are largely in Russia...
Because of its vast land mass, its self-sustaining peasant economy, its 5,000 miles of friendly Russian border, Red China may withstand limited economic sanctions. It can feed itself, after a fashion. It can maintain lightly armed armies on its own resources. With its arsenals (especially in Manchuria) unbombed and its overland supply lines to Russia open, it can probably prolong indefinitely the kind of war it is waging in Korea. But the U.N. embargo will deny Red China easy access to important warmaking materials, will burden her already strained industrial economy...
...blood flowed on & on. Last week Red China's purge of "counterrevolutionaries" reached Manchuria, where Communist rule had seemed unchallenged. In 23 Manchurian cities, including Mukden and Changchun, and even in Russian-controlled Port Arthur and Dairen, police staged large-scale raids, which were reported in detail by Communist news service and radio. Thousands were arrested, hundreds hauled off to the inevitable public mass trials and executions...