Word: manchuria
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From Communist Manchuria last week, the U.S. received a thin piece of news: U.S. Consul General Angus Ward was still alive. The Chinese Communists who held him prisoner had permitted him to send out a request for food, clothing and reading matter...
...Greek issue on to a conciliation commission when it had to make room on its agenda for a new problem. The Chinese had placed a formal charge before the Assembly that Moscow had violated the 1945 Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance, by such acts as robbing Manchuria of most of its industry and giving "moral and material support to the Communist insurrection in China." The Russians, who denounced the Chinese charge as "pitiful babble," wanted to place it last on the agenda: China, backed by the U.S., wanted to put it third, ahead of Russia's phony...
...From Manchuria eastward through Sinkiang, along some 3,500 miles of Inner Asian border between Russia and China, a great shift in power neared completion last week. The vast, potentially rich (oil, coal, gold, wolfram, uranium) territory known as China's Northwest was falling into the Communist orbit...
...People's Government for the Northeast" (i.e., Manchuria), proclaimed by a "People's Congress" in Mukden. Its chairman is one Kao Kang, 47, who is also secretary of the Communist Northeast Bureau...
...plan to raise Manchuria's heavy industrial production. Output now is about 10% of the Japanese mark in 1944. The Communists hope to reach 40% by 1950's end. Proclaimed Kao Kang: "To fulfill this historical task, it is necessary to study seriously ... the Soviet technique in economic construction and methods of government...