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...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...
...Outer Mongolia, said Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek at a Chungking press conference, a plebiscite was under way. It was being conducted under the terms of the Sino-Russian treaty (TIME, Sept. 3), which gave Outer Mongolia's one million Soviet-oriented, cattle-raising tribesmen the right to vote for fusion with China, or for autonomy...
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...