Word: manchuria
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...British journalist just returned from Peking reported: "The war in Korea . . . is already somewhat of a surprise to the Chinese." Hospitals in Manchuria, he added, could not take care of the great number of casualties. Mao Tse-tung and other Red Chinese strategists, who like to read the maxims of Sun-tzu, the ancient (500 B.C.) Chinese Clausewitz, now found themselves up against a field strategy similar to the one that had helped bring down Europe's great 19th Century aggressor...
...vote in the U.N. Political Committee last week came two Russian resolutions aimed at the U.S. One accused the U.S. of "invading" Formosa. The other demanded condemnation of the U.S. for "bombing" Manchuria. Both were rejected overwhelmingly. Only the five Soviet bloc members voted for them...
...Fourth Field Army (about 800,000) was Red China's best up to the time of the Korean war. Organized with Russian help in Manchuria after the Japanese defeat, it was led by General Lin Piao, the Communists' top military theoretician and a zealous party doctrinaire. While most of his fellow commanders are of peasant stock, Lin comes from China's bourgeoisie; his family ran a small textile mill in Hupei province. Lin got his early military training at Whampoa Academy, the Nationalist school set up with Soviet Russian help in the 1920s. One of his instructors...
Most of the Chinese troops now in Korea, or backing up in Manchuria, come from the Fourth and Third Field Armies...
...that the U.N. is on the way to One World, tolerant and peaceful. Last week he would not admit that U.N.'s timidity in the face of Chinese Communist aggression has any ominous resemblance to the League of Nations' historic breakdown when confronted by Japanese aggression in Manchuria and Italian aggression in Ethiopia. "You can't kill the United Nations, even with a battle-ax," he insists. "The people of the world would never allow this organization to quit...