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Communist Goal. One day claims were put forth that the Communists spoke for 100,000,000 Chinese; next day the figure soared to 260,000,000 (a year ago it was 80,000,000). Communist troops pushed into Inner Mongolia and Manchuria, neared Peiping and Tientsin. It looked as if control of all China north of the Yellow River was the Communist goal...
...Chungking the U.S. Army employs many English-speaking Chinese girls, mostly from Hongkong, Shanghai and Tientsin. They have been brought up under Western influences. They like to dance, date boys, kid around. But when they dated U.S. soldiers, Chungking confused them with the jeep girls who ply their trade with great zest and professional abandon...
Marching through Berlin. Five years later Lieut. Wedemeyer was sent out to the 15th Infantry at Tientsin, China. The vast, stirring nation, slowly shaping from revolutionary chaos into a modern nation under the hand of young Chiang Kaishek, fascinated the U.S. officer. He studied Chinese. But Wedemeyer turned down a chance for a career in the China service. In 1934 he was back...
...planned separately. But the industrial program provides for part of the equipment needed to expand transportation in China. The plan includes cement plants, locomotive and freight-car shops, and factories to make earth-moving equipment. It also plans to locate many industries at Jap-held centers like Peiping and Tientsin...
...marine, Mike Mansfield had done a two-year tour in Peking and Tientsin 23 years ago. He had not been back, but as professor of Far Eastern history in Montana State University, and as a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, he had remained a staunch friend of China. Armed with a long, officially prepared list of pertinent questions, Mansfield set out on the Presidential mission...