Word: manchuria
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...first report on the state of the nation last week, new Premier Wong Wen-hao said little that the Legislative Yuan did not know already. The Chinese Reds held all but a fraction of Manchuria. They were straining the Nationalist lines in North China. Some industry was already moving southward; more might soon have to go. Dr. Wong likened it to the great exodus of 1937-39, when Chinese factories were moved to the interior ahead of the Japs. But he promised: "Even though we are compelled to shift our center to South China ... we shall come back and drive...
...after swallowing Manchuria but before tackling the rest of China and the world), Japan maintained in her home islands 70 million people. They subsisted as a nation on a thriving trade with Asia and the West. But in 1948 the overseas empire of Japan was gone; and now almost 80 million people were packed into the home islands. As with the British, the cry of the Japanese could well be: "Export...
...China, Manchuria, Korea? The question reminded the men of SCAP that the answer depended on more than the enmity or forgiveness of those peoples. So long as large areas of those countries were Communist battlefields, there would be little chance of restoring trade. Japan might (for a while) continue to subsist on U.S. doles, a prostrate ward. But its long-range prospects as a free nation would be hopeless...
...other fronts, however, the sagging Nationalists gave ground. Shantung was almost entirely in Communist hands. Along the strategic corridor from North China toward Manchuria the Communists seemed ready for new offensives. For General Hu, as for all of Nationalist China, the external and internal pressures were mounting...
Morale and a Man's Head. Speaker after speaker took up this theme, lashed at "Mistakes, mistakes . . . Corrupt, lawless high officials have lined their pockets while the troops hunger, lose discipline and morale . . . They have transformed Manchuria into a hell...