Word: manchuria
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Nobody had figured out how 70,000,000 Japanese could make a living now that their economy was shattered by the liberation of Manchuria and Korea, by the almost complete destruction of their merchant marine, by loss of control of Asiatic markets, and by the deterioration of the industrial plant in the home islands...
...accounts of this display of celestial crockery with minute interest and incredulity. William Gray, head of our Shanghai bureau, anticipating a query from us about the Chinese angle of this phenomenon, sent us the following cable on the eve of his departure for a reporter's tour of Manchuria...
...policy. There never had been any question but that Chiang Kai-shek's government should be helped. The only question was how, and on what terms. Nanking's immediate needs were higher than ever. Inflation ran unchecked, her armies were in danger of losing most of Manchuria, popular support was at a low ebb. Money was desperately needed to rebuild railroads and port facilities, to construct power plants. Nanking's own estimates of her needs ran to $2½ billion...
...Communists would have to hold China and/or India for quite a few years -perhaps as many as 30. The Japanese found that the slave labor of industrially undeveloped countries did not pay off much in the first year or two. But the Japanese did multiply the industrial production of Manchuria in a decade. If Moscow had 400 million Chinese or Indians and their resources working for it for 30 years, the Communist power would probably become stronger than...
...Manchuria, the Government's hold was weaker than at any time in the 19 months since General Tu Yu-ming's troops recovered control from the Japanese. General Tu still held Mukden and Changchun (the capital), but the Communists camped on his line of communication with the south. Manchuria's great seacoast city of Dairen was still in Russian hands. There was little chance that General Tu could take Dairen if Russia did leave. General Tu's men were busy digging trenches and even medieval moats around the cities they still held, not looking for more...