Word: manchuria
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...Manchuria the Communists pressed their military advantage. Last week, only a month and a half after their fall offensive ended, they were hammering the approaches to Mukden again, despite four-foot snow and cold that dipped to 30° below zero. The Reds did not have to storm Mukden, it probably would be enough to keep the garrison cold and isolated for the big push next spring...
Mukden faced immediate tactical decisions. Nationalist generals gathered for a defense conference with sick Manchuria Commander Chen Cheng (stomach ulcers). To discourage looting by the hungry and desperate among Mukden's half million inhabitants, authorities installed a nightly twelve-hour curfew...
Some long-range decisions had to be made, too. To hold on to North China, would the government soon have to abandon Manchuria entirely? In Nanking last week a government spokesman described the dilemma. Said he: "Two factors are involved-the government military position below the Great Wall and U.S. aid. If both are strong or positive, the government will fight not only to hold on but to reclaim all Manchuria. If either is weak or negative, the government will still fight to the uttermost. But if both are weak and negative, then full retreat from Manchuria may well...
...university, Dr. Hu is his country's most influential educator. He is also its No. 1 living historian and philosopher, and a wartime ambassador to the U.S. His newest achievement: the first syndicated column in China, which now broadcasts his views on social reform to 50 newspapers from Manchuria to Siam...
...ragged blanket of snow spreads over the surrounding plain; canals and streams are ice. The wind cuts through the warmest clothes. Yet there seemed to be less spiritual desolation in Mukden this week than when I saw it under Russian rule in February 1946, after the Soviet rape of Manchuria's industry. A lot of people can muster a smile now. But nobody could find cause for confidence; the Chinese talked of cold homes, high and rising prices, the failing electricity supply. Seven provincial governors wait to enter provinces which the Communists hold, and the appointed mayors of Harbin...