Word: outer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known to the British-and to the Russians-that the victors are supposed to stick around and clean up the peace. The people at home had not learned it either: they were in as much of a hurry as the G.I.s to get them home-back from that unpleasant outer world that neither understood nor appreciated what grand fellows (in George Patton's phrase) Americans were...
...Communist aim: to control a belt of territory reaching roughly 500 miles from Soviet-dominated Outer Mongolia to Soviet-occupied Manchuria...
Mother Russia acquired another child. In the Soviet Union's ample and complex federal bosom,* the newcomer is known as the Tuvinian Autonomous Region. Hitherto it has been called Tannu Tuva, nominally an independent people's republic tucked between Outer Mongolia and Siberia...
...Tsoyi, commanding general of the Twelfth War Zone, was in pitched battle with Communist forces drawn from Yenan and Hopeh. Government strategists were obviously surprised by the Communist strength, now think that the Communists are trying to break out of Yenan into the friendly valleys of Russian-dominated Outer Mongolia...
Chungking had several observers at the polls. But long before the results were in, the Central Government wrote off its claim to nominal sovereignty. Generalissimo Chiang's regime prepared to establish diplomatic relations with Premier Marshal Choibalsan's "independent," Sovietized Republic of Outer Mongolia. This week Moscow reported a "unanimous" vote for "independence" by the Mongolians. All voters had to sign their ballots...