Word: porting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...These were finally laid out in full detail and traced on a map by Stalin in a conversation with Ambassador Harriman on Dec. 14, 1944. Items on the Kremlin's demand list: "return" to Russia of Japan's Kurils and southern Sakhalin; leases on Manchuria's Port Arthur and Dairen, plus operating rights on the Manchurian railways; China's surrender of its claims to Sovietized Outer Mongolia...
Roosevelt quickly replies there is "no difficulty whatsoever" over the Kurils and southern Sakhalin. As to Dairen, it ought to be a free port...
Stalin remarks the Russians won't be "difficult." He has no objections to "an internationalized port." But what about the Manchurian railways...
Thus Stalin had his prize in hand. Two days later Molotov handed to Harriman a draft of Stalin's political conditions. With Roosevelt's approval Harriman suggested some changes. Most important: Port Arthur should be internationalized. Stalin came personally to Harriman, and what followed is reported by Harriman...
...Stalin] said that he was entirely willing to have Dairen a freeport under international control, but that Port Arthur was different. It was to be a Russian naval base, and therefore Russia required a lease. I suggested to Marshal Stalin that he take the opportunity to discuss this matter at once with the President, which he thereupon did. The President agreed to Marshal Stalin's revised proposal...