Word: manchurian
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Over the Line. By week's end MacArthur had also received more concrete instructions. From the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff came orders permitting him to send his forces well above the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, provided they stayed out of the mountains south of the Korean-Manchurian border. In short: invade but don't get too close to Vladivostok...
...days Malik, consistently approaching the same standard of irrelevance, belabored the Council with repetitions of Chinese Communist claims that U.S. planes had carried out 'Barbarous . . . bombing attacks" on the Chinese side of the Korean-Manchurian border (TIME, Sept. 11). But when U.S. Representative Warren Austin proposed that a U.N. commission investigate the bombings, Malik vetoed the motion...
...left to Ambassador Warren Austin at U.N. to bow most deeply toward Peking. In a radio broadcast, the Chinese Communists had raged that two U.S. F51 fighters had strafed their Manchurian border airfield. At Lake Success, Austin said yes, it was just possible that one F51 had accidentally shot up the field, and the U.S. would gladly pay indemnities. Indeed, the U.S. was as anxious as anybody for an investigation and it would abide gladly by the ruling of a U.N. investigating commission...
...same maneuver was repeated toward the end of the 19th Century. Exploiting China's hatred of Japan, Russia obtained from China Port Arthur and Dairen and Manchurian railways. Russia, the friend of China, obtained more from China than Japan, the enemy...
...During the war's first two weeks, busy Russian-built Yak fighters and Ilyushin assault planes had taken a beating from U.S. jet planes. Then the Northern command apparently decided to husband its planes and airmen. U.S. observers guessed that the Reds had either withdrawn their planes to Manchurian bases, or had hidden them in underground hangars built into the Korean mountainside...