Word: manchuria
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...months ago, as U.N. forces swept up the Korean peninsula in the wake of a shattered North Korean army, General Douglas MacArthur summarily called on the enemy "forthwith to lay down your arms and cease hostilities." The Red reply was the massive Chinese assault from Manchuria which divided the U.N. forces and drove them south of the 38th parallel...
Died. Kijuro Shidehara, 78, Japanese statesman; of a heart attack; in Tokyo. Shidehara, onetime Ambassador to Washington, was an advocate of peaceful expansion in a country overrun by military fanatics. Because he opposed Japan's 1931 march on Manchuria, the warlords unseated him from the Foreign Ministry. After 14 years in retirement, he became Prime Minister for six months following World...
...seems about time the discredited crew who've been blackguarding MacArthur and belittling the American soldier started chewing their paragraphs. MacArthur would have beaten the Chinese in short order if he could have bombed in Manchuria. It might have meant war with Russia, but at least, it would have ended the war with the Red Chinese. Bill Cunningham in the Boston Sunday Herald February...
...Plans for extending the U.S. Point Four program to Manchuria...
...Chinese troops which crossed over from Manchuria...