Word: manchuria
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...Responsible authorities [in Manchuria] say that Soviet pilots and artillerymen have been in action with Chinese Communist troops . . . Russian soldiers of occupation have been guilty of terror and rape-more than can be told. The Manchuria lao pai hsing [common people] told me: 'Everything lao pai hsing won't do, the Russian ta pi tzu [big noses] have done...
...must follow a line of action which will keep us strong against any possible attack and which at the same time will be calculated to prove to the Russians-eventually-that they have nothing to fear. . . . If they should decide, for example, that they could march into Turkey or Manchuria without risking a collision with American forces, they might try it. After all, Germany made that mistake twice...
...identify the bodies of U.S. servicemen who had died there during World War II. But few soldiers had ever had a tougher peacetime assignment. Many of China's 3,700 missing U.S. dead had vanished almost without a clue, lay scattered in remote and inaccessible regions from Manchuria to the hot forests of Thailand. The most dramatic example: the 879 men who had died in the wrecks of 468 different airplanes trying to fly the cloud-hung Himalayan Hump...
Soviet Mysteries. Most tantalizing blank spot on the diggers' map of the world is Soviet Russia. Modern man himself probably developed somewhere in Soviet Asia. Scattered thickly from the Black Sea to Manchuria are fascinating mysteries which the diggers yearn to probe. But the Soviet Government excludes outsiders; Soviet diggers, like learned squirrels, hide their choicest finds from outside scrutiny...
...China's Ambassador to the U.S., Wellington Koo, was extraordinarily frank (for a diplomat) in explaining why the U.S. had a special responsibility for supporting Chinese sovereignty over Manchuria. He called attention to the new Russian position in Northeast Asia, which had been greatly strengthened by acquisition of the Kurile Islands, occupation of northern Korea and half-ownership and control of Manchuria's principal railroad. Said...