Word: manchuria
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...North Koreans have an estimated ten well-equipped divisions in the line, approximately 100,000 men. They have a reserve of draftees numbering no less than 50,000, and another reserve force of between 60,000 and 90,000 attached to the Chinese Communist army in Manchuria...
Ever White. Southwest from Paektu along the Manchurian border flows the Yalu River, blue-green with melted snow and ice from its mountain source, and known to Koreans as the Am Nok (Green Duck). Springing northeast from Paektu, the cold Tumen River separates Korea from eastern Manchuria and Siberia. On the Yalu and along the swift-flowing tributaries of the Tumen stand the Japanese-built hydroelectric plants which, until the power lines were cut by the Communists at the 38th parallel, provided 90% of the electricity used in all Korea...
...when two other former Communists testified that he was a party member and that they had seen him at party meetings. ¶Granite-faced, big-eared Michael Lee had been cleared in one Commerce Department loyalty check before he became involved recently in a second one. Born in Harbin, Manchuria of Russian parents and christened Ephraim Zinovi Liberman, Lee had failed three times in bids for U.S. citizenship (grounds: he was not of "good character" and was not "attached to the principles of the Constitution"). Lee changed his name, married an American, and on the fourth try achieved citizenship. Only...
...educators and diplomats-both in & out of the State Department-who strongly influenced U.S. policy in Asia. Specifically, this group consistently opposed U.S. aid to Nationalist China and Chiang Kaishek, whom Lattimore regards as the No. 1 enemy of progress in Asia. In his twelve books (The Mongols of Manchuria, America and Asia, The Situation in Asia, etc.), Lattimore has offered the U.S. a lot of advice on how to win friends in the Far East. One of his opinions, preached steadily for years', was that China's Communists were not really subservient to Moscow and were...
...wrote ten books on the Far East, as early as 1932 propounded the theory that who held Manchuria held China. In 1941 he became personal political adviser and expediter of U.S. aid to Chiang Kaishek, was appointed Pacific director...