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...traced on a map by Stalin in a conversation with Ambassador Harriman on Dec. 14, 1944. Items on the Kremlin's demand list: "return" to Russia of Japan's Kurils and southern Sakhalin; leases on Manchuria's Port Arthur and Dairen, plus operating rights on the Manchurian railways; China's surrender of its claims to Sovietized Outer Mongolia...
Stalin remarks the Russians won't be "difficult." He has no objections to "an internationalized port." But what about the Manchurian railways...
During the civil war against the Reds, Wei was made chief of the anti-Communist campaign in nine Manchurian provinces. At this point something snapped in General Wei's mind. Of his own accord, he abandoned his garrison in hard-pressed Mukden and fled to Canton, under an assumed name, with his second wife. The furious and disillusioned Gimo had him arrested and sent to Nanking to face charges. For a while, Wei dropped out of sight, but after the fall of Nanking in the last days of Chiang's mainland rule, Wei turned up in Hong Kong...
...bypass the railway check point at Sinuiju, on the Manchurian border, the Communists built a new spur line two miles away, over which illegal arms roll unhindered from Manchuria. At the Manpo check point on the Yalu, neutral inspectors see nothing but empty freight cars returning to Manchuria-while loaded trains cross into North Korea over a nearby bridge barred to the truce teams...
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...