Word: corridors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American showed his credentials to the guard at the first door, who looked him over suspiciously and disappeared into the official's office. The American waited, standing first on one foot, then on the other. Suddenly the guard at the other door glanced furtively up & down the corridor. Then, sidling up to the astonished diplomat, he whispered hoarsely: "When are the Americans coming...
...that Mukden has fallen (TIME, Nov. 8), Taiyuan has become the prime Communist objective in North China. Taiyuan, surrounded capital of Shansi Province, is the last island of resistance protecting the southern flank of Nationalist General Fu Tso-yi's North China corridor. For three years Taiyuan's commander, oldtime warlord Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, has fought off increasingly heavy Communist attacks. Last week TIME Correspondent Robert Doyle flew in to visit the marshal. Doyle cabled...
...decision to pull out of Mukden came during an emergency conference called by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek with his top generals in Peiping. The meeting was followed by the government's recapture of Yingkow, opening a seaport and a narrow, 100-mile corridor from the Mukden pocket (TIME...
Unfortunately, a full-scale Manchurian Dunkirk from Yingkow was no longer possible. The success of the operation depended on the ability of General Liao Yao-hsiang to keep open the escape corridor with twelve divisions, to allow the remaining seven Nationalist divisions to embark. Last week, the Communist radio announced that Liao's whole demoralized force had been wiped out. Significantly, it added that the disaster had occurred "on the eve of the U.S. elections...
...After mopping up around Mukden, handsome Communist Commander General Lin Piao, once Chiang Kai-shek's star student at the Whampoa Military Academy, will be able to mass some 250,000 Red troops for a southward thrust at Peiping and General Fu Tso-yi's North China corridor. Unless Fu can get substantial reinforcements, the fall of North China will be merely a question of Communist convenience...