Word: sakhaline
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...might be either construction blasting or artillery practice. Off the coast of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island, searchlights from Russian submarines or patrol boats have been turned on the homes of the island's farmers from less than a mile offshore. Shipping between Vladivostok and Russian-occupied Sakhalin Island, which dangles like a knife over Hokkaido, is heavy...
...Japan renounces its claims to Formosa (now held by the Chinese Nationalists), Korea, the Kurile Islands and South Sakhalin (Russia got both at Yalta), the 623 islands of the Caroline, Mariana and Marshall chain (now controlled by the U.S. under U.N. trusteeship), and the Bonin and Ryukyu Islands, including Okinawa, now an important U.S. air base...
...opposes the treaty because: 1) it does not prohibit U.S. forces in Japan; 2) does not turn over Formosa to Red China; 3) gives the U.S. trusteeship over the Ryukyu and Bonin Islands, including Okinawa; 4) does not confirm Russia's Yalta title to the Kuriles and South Sakhalin; 5) does not give Japan "honor, equality and contentment...
...treaty for ... the purpose of rearming Japan and preparing a new world war of aggression for the U.S." An acceptable treaty, continued Chou, would 1) grant Red China control over Formosa, the Pescadores and other islands off the China mainland, 2) approve Russia's Yalta title to South Sakhalin and the Kuriles, and 3) bar U.S. armed forces in Japan. Knowing that they could make no headway against the U.S., the British and the French, the Communists evidently hoped to keep India, Indonesia and other Asian governments from accepting the treaty...
...Japan renounces its claims to Formosa (held by the Chinese Nationalists), the Kurile Islands and South Sakhalin (Rus sia got both at Yalta), the 623 formerly mandated islands of the Caroline, Mariana and Marshall chain (now controlled by the U.S. under U.N. trusteeship), and the Bonin and Ryukyu Islands, including B-29 base Okinawa (now occupied...