Word: sinkiang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year, civil war has raged in remote Sinkiang (Chinese Turkestan). News of the conflict has been scanty but persistent. On the surface, it looked like a minor revolt of nomadic Moslem tribesmen against their Chinese overlords...
Last week New York Timesman C. L. Sulzberger, who had investigated the problem in Moscow, reported from London the first coherent account of the Sinkiang situation. He also reported that Sinkiang is the epicenter of a political earthquake which may change the power geography of Asia. For Sinkiang is the keystone of the Eurasian heartland. It has common frontiers with Russian Turkestan, Russian-dominated Outer Mongolia, British-dominated Tibet, China and China's Communist area around Yenan...
...more energetic foreign policy, with special emphasis on improving relations with Soviet Russia. (Chungking made a gesture in this direction last month when Sinkiang's anti-Soviet governor Shen Shihtsai was replaced by General Wu Chung-hsin, an expert conciliator. His nickname: Ho-shih-laoor"Old-Man-Smooth-lt-Over...
Tihwa (pop. 50,000), the capital of Sinkiang Province, turned out thousands of Chinese, Mohammedans, Uigurs, Uzbeks, Kazaks and Kueihuas to greet the highest U.S. official who had ever visited that dot in vast Chinese Turkestan. In preparation for the great day, the Governor,General Sheng Shih-tsai, laid in a fresh supply of toothbrushes, tongue-scrapers, and ear-cleaners, had the columns of his house freshly painted, took a U.S. Embassy attaché down a flight of stairs to show him the only flush toilet in all Sinkiang (600,000 sq. mi.). Proudly Governor Sheng pulled the chain...
...dinner that evening Henry Wallace had his choice of great stacks of duck, eggplant, cheese, tinned crabmeat, smoked salmon, salami, sausages, cucumbers, cantaloupe, ice cream, Russian chocolates, port wine or brandy. The General gave the Vice President two brightly colored Sinkiang rings, one for himself and one for Franklin Roosevelt. In turn Henry Wallace produced a luscious rarity for the Governor's wife: fat strawberries from Alma Ata, Siberia. After two days he was off on the 1,500-mile trip to the key stop of his swing around Asia...