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Since Government and Communists had agreed to extend their uneasy truce to the northeast, the fighting at Kaiyuan seemed ominous. Chungking reported that disagreement on "fundamentals" had delayed the flight of Government-Communist-U.S. truce teams into the trouble zones. Mukden, where U.S. truce officers had arrived, was a prime exhibit in the Manchurian mixup. Items...
...Mukden's cart-jammed main street, still called "Stalin Prospect," a merchant, who claimed his shop had been looted by the Russians, said he would reopen "when the American consulate tells stores to reopen." Told that the American consulate had no such power, he winked knowingly and persisted: "Then when the American consulate tells the Chinese officials to tell us to reopen stores...
...duties as a member of the commission, however, have not as yet been clearly defined. At the time of his sailing, he had not been told exactly what art objects the commission will attempt to recover, although documentary records of the Manchu dynasty which have been missing from Mukden, Manchuria, since the Japanese occupation, are said to be among these...
...Mukden, they talked to one Soong Chu-sheng, tobacco factory manager. He told them how the Russians had looted last fall, had methodically stripped factories, had taken two-thirds of his cigaret output without pay. Shortly afterward, the talkative Soong was shot by a gunman. Several of the correspondents accused themselves in print of being "unwitting motivators" of his murder...
They had set out under the auspices of the Chinese, but were quickly taken in hand by the Russians. One group was confined for 54 hours in Mukden and 53 hours in Changchun, for arriving without official sanction. At Changchun, calling on frosty Major General Fedor Karlov, they were curtly told to stay away from Red Army installations. At the end of the interview, Karlov told newsmen: "We have no machines to take you back to the hotel." At 10 below zero, they trudged the three miles back through the snow. Several noted that U.S. Lend-Lease trucks and cars...