Word: manchuria
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After all there is a great deal of land in China, much of it marked by towns and villages, but there are few major concentrations of industrial capacity. Outside of Manchuria, automotive engines are probably not yet produced anywhere in this whole great country, nor are we likely to find any petroleum cracking plants, much less roller bearing factories like those of Schweinfurt or centers of aircraft production...
...much-publicized labor hero, the Chinese Stakhanov of "Inside Red China" [TIME, April 9] could not stand the production pace set up by himself and his brigade, and has suffered a complete mental collapse. He became a nervous wreck, and had to be taken to a sanatorium in Manchuria last August. This was unwittingly slipped through a report in a Communist newspaper, the Yangtse Daily, published in Hankow...
...urged a return to bi-partisan foreign policy as conceived by the late Senator Vandenberg. He agreed that aid to Aela is vital and urged that "Truman should talk to Stalin in he has to walk through Red Square in sackcloth." Kai-Shek and at least reconnaissance missions over Manchuria...
...injecting politics into military policy; when MacArthur parades drew crowds in the millions, Republicans pushed the General onto their own platform. Taft, who two months before had been afraid of inciting the Russians, now accused Truman of flirting with appeasement. In February the Ohioan had opposed the bombing of Manchuria; now he called for an aggressive war on China. when our Joint Chiefs of Staff backed up Truman, Taft branded the military men as political stooges, although he admitted he was no authority on military affairs. Meanwhile both Taft and Wherry continue to attack the Administration for its "wavering...
Taylor opposed an invasion of Manchuria and the bombing of Chinese mainland supply bases, as advocated by MacArthur. Such action, he declared, would gradually involve us in a full scale was with "the wrong enemy on the wrong battlefield...