Word: manchuria
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...integrity of China is now an ironic phrase. The movement of Soviet forces into Sinkiang, the realities of 'joint exploitation' of that great province by Moscow and Peiping, the separation of Inner Mongolia from the body politic of China, and the continued inroads of Soviet power into Manchuria under the cloak of Korean aggression mean in fact that China is losing its great northern areas to the European empire which has stretched out its greedy hands for them for at least a century...
Poised and coldly emphatic, General Omar N. Bradley answered Douglas MacArthur and his arguments for extending the war in Korea by bombing sanctuary bases in Manchuria and blockading China's coast. "Frankly, in the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff," Bradley told the Senate committee, "this strategy would involve us in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time and with the wrong enemy...
...although they have a bigger & better field in their Manchurian sanctuary just across the Yalu at Antung. U.S. intelligence officers guessed that the enemy might launch a massive air effort against the allies, with the claim that it was entirely Korea-based, thus hoping to avoid U.N. retaliation against Manchuria...
...planes were damaged by antiaircraft fire. During the attack, some 50 MIG-15s whirled up from Antung, but only a dozen of them challenged the U.S. raiders, and were easily driven off. The others headed back into Manchuria-apparently under the erroneous impression that the U.S. had decided to hit Antung and other Manchurian lairs...
...diplomacy, she says, helped the Communists mightily with two blows: 1) the Yalta secret deal (1945) whereby President Roosevelt agreed to Russian rights in Manchuria (naval base at Port Arthur, use of Dairen harbor, operating controls over railways); and 2) the Marshall Mission (1946) in which General Marshall tried to force the National Government into a coalition with the Communists (see THE MACARTHUR HEARING...