Word: sino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What this meant, said Mr. Gauss, was that Sino-American business relations were on a new-and as yet largely unknown- basis. Until the new basis is clear, he warned: the U.S. should go slow in making loans lest it foster "projects which cut across lines of our own interests." Nevertheless, he concluded: the manner in which those new relations are worked out will determine how many U.S. companies will want to invest money in China. "[While] mistakes may be made . . . the climate for American participation in the development of China will be ... healthful and encouraging...
...Government of the Republic of China. Off the Manchurian coast, aboard transports escorted by war ships of Admiral 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...
...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 Government's entry will be delayed until December...
...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...
...created for the whole of China." Moscow gave no details, but asserted that the new government would have wider political representation, that "an early election will be held throughout China." China's armed forces, added Moscow, would be demobilized. The broadcast, attributing much credit to the recent Sino-Russian treaty (TIME, Aug. 27), ended with the categorical statement: ". . . Unity in China has been established...