Word: manchurian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overruled. But the U.S., failing to press home its advantages, made error upon critical error, according to the witnesses. The day Chinese "volunteers" swarmed across the Yalu, testified General Mark Clark, "we should have indicated that we were at war with Red China." Attacking Manchurian bases, however, might have triggered a world war. "It might have," said Clark, with Joy concurring. "I do not think it would have...I do not think you can drag the Soviets into a world war except at a time and place of their own choosing. They have been doiqg^too well in the cold...
Underneath, the accords wore the look of deep cooperation between Moscow and Peking. Most of the points were Russian concessions. The Russians agreed: ¶ To evacuate their ice-free Manchurian naval base at Port Arthur (pop. 142,000) by the end of next May, thereby ending a ten-year military occupation. ¶ To extend another $130 million in long-term credits to Peking. ¶ To sell back (for easy payments of Chinese exports) their share of four joint Soviet-Chinese companies in Red China now that the Chinese "can themselves manage the activity of enterprises." This was on the surface...
...government created special courts and special prosecutors in the showcase Manchurian industrial centers of Shenyang (Mukden) and Anshan, and along the country's principal railways, to detect and punish "counterrevolutionary sabotage," espionage and willful inefficiency (Peking People's Daily, March...
...estimated civilian needs), and the new gesture would help Malaya's sagging rubber trade. Sale of rubber is still banned to Communist China, Hong Kong, Macao and Tibet. But there will be nothing to prevent Malayan rubber from finding its way from, say, Vladivostok via a Manchurian tire factory to a Chinese truck outside Dienbienphu...
Though last July's armistice silenced the guns, a mysterious oriental killer has gone on taking the lives of U.S. servicemen in Korea. Epidemic hemorrhagic fever, or Manchurian fever (TIME, Nov. 19, 1951), has killed 17 G.I.s since the fighting ended, and last week 82 were still in the Army's special hospital at Seoul in a long battle to win back their health and strength...