Word: manchuria
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...Novelist Bulwer-Lytton (The Last Days of Pompeii); of a heart attack; in Knebworth, Hertfordshire, England. Lord Lytton, whose father as Viceroy proclaimed Queen Victoria Empress of India, was Viceroy himself for four months in 1925 and headed the League of Nations' futile 1932 peace mission to Manchuria...
...there, in the coal-and iron-laden valleys of South Manchuria, the Chinese Nationalists almost literally had their backs to the Wall. They were not yielding lightly, but Chiang's troops were bending backwards under the weight of the sixth major thrust by the Chinese Communists since...
...General Lin Piao's "United Democratic Army" had begun Oct. 1. Pinching from both sides of the Mukden-Changchun railway, it had quickly crunched more than 100 miles of the Government-held corridor. Changchun itself, which the Japanese had planned as the modern stone & steel capital city of Manchuria, was surrounded., The big iron works at Anshan (or what remained after Russian removals following V-J day) were at the edge of the Nationalist line, 55 miles south of Mukden. Communists pressed nearer the great open-pit coal mines at Fushun...
Nationalist China had once counted on the machinery and production of a tranquil Manchuria to speed Chinese recovery by months, if not years. There was almost nothing left of that vision. It would be enough now simply to hold...
Optimists in Nanking believed that their armies could probably hold out this time. But they wondered about the offensives that seemed sure to come in the spring. And after that? Even the optimists in China knew that, in Manchuria, history was passing the eleventh hour, and that only Washington could stop the clock...