Word: manchuria
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...Port Arthur-Dairen area of Manchuria, where Yalta's secret deal gave Joseph Stalin a naval base and port privileges, the Russians have their 3gth army (two infantry, one armored, one artillery, one antiaircraft and two "aviation" divisions), numbering...
...called] on President Roosevelt in my official capacity as Chinese Ambassador. The war had broken out in Europe and the President was worried. He said to me: 'I have been thinking about mediating for a peace between China and Japan. The most difficult question, of course, is Manchuria. I have a new formula: I can settle this question of Manchuria on the same basis as the new agreement we have just signed with Britain regarding the joint interest and control over two islands in the Pacific: the Canton and Enderbury Islands. Some such arrangement can be made with regard...
...subsequently found that Canton Island was nine miles long and 500 yards at the widest. Its population was 40. Enderbury Island was three miles long and one mile wide, and had a population of four persons! Manchuria, of course, has a population of 33 million and an area of about 413,000 square miles...
...official Communist New China News Agency last week railed against extensive sabotage, bribery, wastefulness and negligence, causing millions of dollars damage to the Red economy during the past year. In Manchuria alone 303 mine accidents occurred; one disaster killed 174 miners because of Stakhanovite competition that neglected safety conditions. All told, the agency reported, state properties suffered 6,100 cases of loss or damage; 30% of this was blamed on sabotage, 60% on negligence and other "malicious" factors...
...report to Peking, the Communist chairmen of South China's Kwangsi and Kwangtung provinces told of heavy Nationalist guerrilla activity, depression and unemployment in cities, peasant resistance to rice-tax collection. Last spring, they said, rumors of a Nationalist comeback, of a Japanese "invasion" of Manchuria and a U.S. "invasion" of Shanghai excited mobs to massacre 105 commissars in two counties alone...