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...China turned to the West for help. Now Communists, schooled in Moscow, rule China. The Kremlin has tried to keep them from any contact with us. An example of this was the arrest of our consul in Mukden in 1947. England and the United States desired to recognize Mao, but this Russian-inspired incident alienated us, as the Kremlin planned," he continued...
...LIEUT. FRANCIS A. STRIEBY of Okonoko, W.Va.: "Interrogated for ten days while in handcuffs ... He refused to yield and was taken to Mukden . . . There his legs were shackled with chains, the chains kicked into his shins by guards and the wounds in his shins left to fester with no medical aid. Three separate times he was dragged about the floor, kicked in the legs and back and almost lifted from the floor by his hair and ears. Once in an effort to open his clasped hands five guards pinned him to his cell wall, hit him repeatedly in the body...
...LIEUT. JOSEPH E. MORELAND of Oil Hill, Kans.: "Interrogated for over 1,800 hours. He observed Soviet personnel guiding the interrogations. He was taken to Mukden . . . tried twice for refusing to confess germ warfare. The first trial ended in a sentence to a corrective labor camp-and a sentence of execution against his daughter in the U.S. At all times he was in solitary confinement...
...assigned to them. It was April when the good news came and seven of them were given their freedom, demanded by Britain and approved by the Soviet Union. At the Korea-Chinese frontier, Deane managed to smuggle out the notes for the book he finished two months later. In Mukden, they boarded "a beautiful blue train" decorated with Picasso doves -the "Peace Express." They were headed for Moscow, then home...
...this will entail higher taxes and greater economy in state industries. Capital for the operation: the people's savings and the workers' sweat. Coinciding with Kao's appointment was a power-ingathering order abolishing six regional government and military administrations (including Kao's own at Mukden, Lin Piao's at Hankow) in favor of centralization. China was set to get its long overdue industrialization the hard way, but so far there is nothing to show that Kao Kang's shuffling dragon is clothed in anything more than paper...