Word: manchuria
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...condemning American support of reaction in Spain, Greece and China, it is not necessary to excuse Russian behaviour in Manchuria, intransigence in Germany and ruthlessness in the Balkans. If the choice has so often been between Communism and Fascism abroad it is because we have failed to support vital economic and social reforms and the democratic forces in these countries that would advance such reforms. My remarks were in support of an affirmative American foreign policy rather than the present negative program of "Stop Russia...
...some seven million Germans and Japs were still held prisoner in Allied countries. From Germany and her satellites Soviet Russia alone still retained an estimated four million. From Japan she held a million-odd more. Throughout the U.S.S.R., in coal mines, lumber camps, vineyards, construction camps and factories, from Manchuria to the Urals, they labored for the glory of the new five-year plan. Shortly before the elections in Germany's Russian zone, Moscow released 120,000, but most of these were sickly, unskilled, or unfit for work. They made poor propaganda. "I wish he had never come back...
...Yenan, defiant Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung called for unlimited guerrilla warfare from hundreds of Red village bases. In Manchuria, Communist Li Lisan, who had opposed Mao in internal Communist politics 20 years ago (TIME, Sept. 9; Sept. 23), was urging a separate, Soviet-backed state...
...sooner had a truce [between the Government and the Communists] been declared in January than the Communist army began to infiltrate into Manchuria for the purpose of occupying important cities and towns which were evacuated by the Russians, and which, according to the Sino-Soviet treaty of August 1945, should be reoccupied only by the Chinese Government troops...
Hwaiyin (southeast of Kaifeng) also fell to Government forces, while Harbin was menaced by General Tu Li-ming's advancing troops, who were spoiling for a fight in Manchuria "before the snow flies." Along the border of Russian-occupied Korea, Government soldiers were preparing a drive on Antung, "funnel for delivery of foreign [i.e., Russian] supplies to the Communists...