Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the U.S. commander in China, Lieut. General Albert C. Wede-meyer, returned from the U.S., he came direct to Peiping. He talked earnestly with top U.S. officers in China, reportedly advised Washington to withdraw U.S. marines gradually (in about three months). But some Americans in China would risk a stronger U.S. policy and go all-out to insure China's peace by supporting Chiang's Government, imperfect...
Municipal Councilor; or Mme. Hèlèna Solomon-Langevin, alumna of Oswiecim concentration camp; or Mme. Félix Eboué from overseas France, widow of the late great Negro Governor General of French Equatorial Africa? Last week he prevailed upon Jules to withdraw his resignation and to discuss a revolution-by-law in the Assembly's old-fashioned barbershop...
...practical, patient Czechoslovaks have undergone occupation of one kind or another ever since Munich. Last week they gladly heard that the end was near. Mild-mannered, thin-faced Premier Zdenek Fierlinger announced that both Russia and the U.S. had agreed to withdraw their soldiers. In Washington the State Department said that both armies would leave...
...North China, where the great stake was the railway system, a solution was proposed by Chungking's Information Minister K. C. Wu: 1) the Communists should withdraw from the railways; 2 ) the Central Government would accept their local administration beyond the right of way, pending a final political solution. Yenan answered: "Until a political settlement is reached, occupation of railways is dangerous...
...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...