Word: tung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chance" would have it, they arrive just as the Japs attack. One of the she-shipmates is missing in action. Lanny marries the other-an amateur medium who has spirited conversations with the late financier Otto Kahn. They escape through China, sit a spell with Communist Leader Mao Tze-tung, then fly to a Moscow powwow with Joseph Stalin, who says: "You are a well-informed man, Mr. Budd, and good company. The next time you come this way, I hope you won't fail to let me know...
...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...
...China's top leaders had arranged. Amid his stops was isolated Yenan, capital of Chinese Communism. There he remained overnight, caught cold watching an elaborate performance of drum dancers and folk singers in an icy auditorium, had a long talk with No. 1 Communist Mao Tse-tung. It was a good bet that Manchuria was mentioned more than once...
This week Russia was still picking through the bare bones for industrial loot. When Red Army men carted off machinery from the Mukden ice plant, the city's new Chinese mayor, Tung Wen-chi, protested to the Russian garrison commander, Major General Andrei Kovtun-Stankevich. A man of remarkable statements (see INTERNATIONAL), the Soviet officer blandly replied: "The Red Army is very powerful. I cannot stop them...
...girl, who sat facing a picture of Communist Chairman Mao Tse-tung as she pasted boxes, had worked here three years. "She started learning to read and write after the Eighth Route Army came," said Professor Lin. The Communists, he explained, give these children one hour of schooling after work each day. How much had this child learned? Professor Lin questioned her, then turned with a puzzled look and said: "She says she hasn't learned at all." He smiled and added...