Word: vladivostok
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Governor Wu spoke, the last Nationalist troops on the mainland were streaming across the border into Indo-China, and the Chinese Communists held uncontested control of the Asian coastline from the Gulf of Tonkin almost to Vladivostok. Only the remnants of the Nationalist armies stood against the certainty that China's Communists would try to take Formosa, thus driving a dangerous wedge between strategic U.S. positions in Japan and Okinawa to the north, and in the Philippines to the south...
Tsumoru Fujii had been at Ulan Ude near Lake Baikal. His story was typical. This P.W. camp was run by a seven-man "antifascist committee" made up of captives who had gone through a two-month political school at Nakhodka, near Vladivostok. Five nights a week, Fujii and his fellow prisoners would trudge off to hear a two-hour lecture. Last November, prisoners were told how Henry Wallace had been defrauded of the U.S. presidency by vote-buying and illegal balloting organized by Democrats and Republicans. Recently they were told that MacArthur was forcibly taking rice from Japanese farmers...
...People Speak. The Travel Expert requires a more complex ploy. Just as the expert is getting into full stride on his visit to Vladivostok, the Lifeman clears his throat...
Yourself: I was only going to say that though I was never in Vladivostok, I did spend some months in Munster Lager, not a million miles away ... Of course, I was working as a stevedore among the dockers and porters-I didn't see much of the higher-ups I'm afraid. But Lord, I feel I understood the people-the cutters and the quay cleaners, the dossmen...
...thin chain of islands picketing the vast Red-dominated land mass of Asia, Douglas MacArthur stood overwhelmingly outgunned, outmanned, and out-planed by actual and potential Soviet power. In every category of military strength (except the atomic bomb), the Soviet Union, stretching from the Bering Strait to Vladivostok and deep inland, held at least a ten-to-one superiority. Reported Douglas MacArthur: the time to prepare is now. He asked immediately for six divisions, hundreds of aircraft and increased naval forces...