Word: manchurian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...course generally known that this [Manchurian] arrangement was conceived and agreed to by the participating nations at the Yalta Conference to which China was not invited. ... It was evidently a price paid for Soviet cooperation in the achievement of victory over Japan. But it remained a curious and practically unique instance...
Final Victory. On Saturday afternoon, the delegates gathered in the Assembly hall-unheated save by smoldering tempers. Chiang spoke briefly, in behalf of unity, assured delegates Article 5 offered full protection for minorities. But an irate Manchurian delegate was not mollified; he stomped to the speaker's stand, insultingly yelled: "Wash your ears and listen to me!" While the Gissimo stared nervously at the ceiling and catcalls drowned the Manchurian's words, Chief of Staff...
Chen Cheng took command. He persuaded the hysterical delegate to sit down. From across the aisle old Kung Keng snarled: "Watch your tongue!" The Manchurian popped up again, screamed: "Democracy!" After its fashion, that's what...
...equipped Sixth and Fifty-second Armies broke the Manchurian stalemate. With surprising but by now familiar ease they captured Antung, Red China's only major Manchurian port, then pushed south (toward the Soviet-controlled port of Dairen) to clear lesser harbors. In what obviously was a coordinated offensive, other Nationalist armies closed in on Chefoo, across the Yellow Sea from Antung on the Shantung Peninsula. Once again U.S. equipment and training was in evidence-the Chefoo attackers splashed ashore from old Navy landing boats...
Squeeze Play. Strategically, the fall of Antung was a greater blow to the Communists than Kalgan, where they had lost land communications between Yenan and their Manchurian headquarters, Harbin. Across the 240-mile-wide neck of the Yellow Sea a great fleet of junks had plied, bringing captured Japanese arms to the Shantung Communists, ferrying Eighth Route Army soldiers to Manchuria. The Nationalist Victory pocketed the Shantung Reds between the Tsingtao-Tsinan Railway and the sea; and in Manchuria, it strengthened the Government flank for the ultimate drive north on Harbin...