Word: sino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Often during the five years before Pearl Harbor, Dr. Stuart acted as a Sino-Japanese middleman. Betweentimes, he was kept busy bailing his Nationalist-minded students and faculty members out of Jap occupation headquarters and stalling Japs who wanted to hoist the puppet flag over Yenching. After the start of U.S.-Jap hostilities, when Stuart himself was interned in a house in Peiping, the Japs, who had hoped to exploit his close personal friendship with Chiang, refused to let him be repatriated to the U.S. He spent the war writing a commentary on the New Testament and playing anagrams with...
...between was the veteran Manchurian barrister, Mo Teh-hui, 64, one of the negotiators of the Sino-Soviet pact of last August. Mo spent six days with the Young Marshal at Tung-tse, in Kweichow, "by the side of a beautiful lake." On his return he reported...
Lionel ("Old Man") Pratt, the hostel's oldest veteran, had come to China when the Sino-Japanese war (1895) was still big news. The Government had made him secretary-adviser to Madame Chiang Kaishek. Whenever Old China Hand Pratt talked about "the war," newsmen often suspected that he meant the war of 50 years...
...Corporation. Never one to be caught short himself, Serge had meanwhile been building up control of the Chosen Corp., Ltd., a British concern which owned Japanese companies operating gold mines in Korea. By 1937, when the Sino-Japanese War threatened to wipe out his interests, Rubinstein smartly sold Chosen's Far Eastern properties for $1,700,000 to a Polish friend. The latter supposedly smuggled Chosen's cash in Japan out of the country, wrapped in obis...
...George Chneider. Countered Chneider: "Our presence is not only admitted and approved by both Russia and China, but ordered. I have been informed that a joint commission in Harbin is even now discussing the future of Fushun. Until they reach a decision, the Combine continues to belong to the Sino-Soviet Changchun Railroad. Surely we do not intend just to sit around and drink tea. Maybe it is a Chinese custom to drink tea in the office, but it is not a Soviet...