Word: manchuria
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Fighting men leaped into the Great Debate. One wounded corporal went a step beyond Senator Paul Douglas' suggestion that the generals be permitted to use the atom bomb on Chinese troops. From a hospital in Japan, he wrote that we should atom-bomb Manchuria right away...
...depart on his special mission to Chungking. He awaited the President's instructions, and the War Department submitted a draft of what it would advise. The War Department would promise Chiang Kai-shek U.S. support in establishing the Nationalist government's authority over all of China and Manchuria; it wanted the U.S. to use every means to get the Nationalists north of the Yellow River. Purpose: to let them, instead of the Chinese Communists, take the territories abandoned by the defeated Japanese troops still in Manchuria, and seize the Japanese arms. With Dean Acheson's approval, this...
...Yalta, Franklin Roosevelt, in trying to persuade Stalin to join in the Pacific war, had bribed him with Dairen and Port Arthur and the railways of Manchuria, and thereby had thrown China's door open to Russia. The views of such experts on Russia as George Kennan were rejected. No White Paper arguments could alter the fact that a majority of U.S. advisers on China were uncomprehending or prejudiced; that China policy was being made in Washington largely by the haters of Chiang's Kuomintang government; that no one who warned of the threat of Asiatic Communism...
...until Kim Il Sung's army was crushed last fall. Then (according to the Times), China-trained Kim Tu Bong called for peace; he was executed. The Chinese Communists, the story went on, waited for Russia's Korean satellite forces to disintegrate; then they marched in from Manchuria, reversed the Red rout without Russian tanks or other heavy materiel, kicked Kim Il Sung on to the sidelines, took over the show in Korea...
...Germ of Controversy." A divergence between Peking and Moscow over tactics and controls in Korea (or over the much more important prize of Manchuria) is certainly possible. If these differences, like those between Tito and Stalin, lend themselves to exploitation, it is a chance " that the free world ought not to miss. But, at the moment, any split between the Chinese and Russians seems to be more in wishes than in evidence...