Word: ported
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unity. Last summer the new army was ready for action. With the utmost secrecy it prepared to push through the Japanese "lifeline" in South China, seize a port on the coast and thereby open the country for a U.S. landing. Suddenly the Japanese surrendered. The C.C.C. was denied both a victory and the recognition for which it had labored so long...
...China - but only into the area which was part of the China theater - and found themselves supporting the French restoration. U.S. airmen, marines and naval forces transported and supported their Allies, the Chinese Nationalists, only in areas where there were Japs to be surrendered and disarmed. (At the important port of Chefoo, for example, Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey backed away, declined to land because the Communists had al ready disposed of the Japs there...
...Thomas C. Kinkaid's U. S. Seventh Fleet, hovered Central Government troops. They had come to take over from the Soviet Red Army, as agreed in last August's Sino-Russian pact. But, for no given reason, Red Army commanders balked at opening Manchuria's main ports of Dairen and Port Arthur. Hasty parleys were called at Changchun...
This week the Thirteenth and Fifty-second Chinese Armies embarked on U.S. transports at the extreme south of China and headed up the coast to Manchuria. So far forbidden by Russia to land at the theoretically international port of Dairen, some will land at nearby fishing ports; others will land below the Great Wall and walk into Manchuria. They will either meet Russian policy face to face, or glimpse its retreating back. Under the Sino-Russian treaty of August, Stalin promised to withdraw his Red Army from Manchuria on or about Nov. 15; now it looks as if the Central...