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Most Americans, unfamiliar with Chinese geography, found China's war completely baffling. Its ultimate strategy hinged on control of China's arterial railroads. Like a huge capital A, these trunk lines run from Peiping (at the northern apex of the A) southward to Hankow and Nanking. The bar across the A was the Lunghai Railroad which meandered from Sian, in China's far west, to Laoyao, a minor port on the coast. For Nationalists and Communists alike, control of this A was a strategic necessity. Through its two-way gate Nationalists could move to conquer and hold...
...before Surits walked down his Rio gangplank, three Brazilian destroyers had steamed 200 miles southward to strikebound, Communist-controlled Santos, the world's largest coffee port, and landed 227 marines. Abashed by armed force and the jailing of their Communist leaders, the striking bagrinhos (dockwork-ers-literally, "shadfish") promised not to do it again. Minister of Labor Octacilio Negrão de Lima rushed into town, reiterated the Government's conveniently forgotten pledge to replace airless, lightless dockside tenements with modern housing. The workers accepted his offer of a 54% pay hike...
...triumph of their U.S. visit. First triumph: rooms (they bagged four at the Plaza).Second triumph: train reservations. Said the Prince when he heard reservations were hard to get: "Charter a train for us!" In fact he settled for space aboard two different public trains on two different roads. Southward bound: Prince, Princess, daughter, two grandchildren, a governess, and a valet...
Kurusu: No, nothing of particular interest except that it is quite clear now that that southward-ah-the south, the south matter is having considerable effect. [This was a reference to Jap troops in French Indo-China...
...Chinese Eastern Railway toward Harbin, making gains up to 50 miles a day. On the north, the Amur River was crossed in two parallel pushes. From the Vladivostok panhandle, two more drives were launched, one westward along the railway to nip Harbin in a giant pincers, the other southward into Korea, where the port of Rashin was captured...