Word: manchuria
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Bypassing the peace delegates, Boss Mao had drafted an ultimatum, sent it south to Nanking by special messenger. Its chief demand: within four days, the Nationalist armies must be transferred to Communist command. Otherwise Red troops, strengthened in the past months by fresh conscripts and regular reinforcements from Manchuria, would strike across the Yangtze...
...army chief of staff and now mayor of Peiping. When he took office in February, Yeh told Peiping's municipal workers: "I often make mistakes and I welcome correction. But I would not welcome it chalked on the toilet wall." Other Red delegates: General Lin Piao, conqueror of Manchuria; Lin Po-chu, chairman of the Communist Shensi-Kansu-Ningsia border government; Li Weihan, Communist party whip and negotiator at Marshall mission conferences two years...
Ferociously anti-Communist during his long years of loyalty to the Gimo, Ho attended Buchmanite moral rearmament meetings while in the U.S., decided he must "fight idea with idea" rather than "force with force." After the Japanese surrender, Ho opposed Chiang's policy of attempting to hold Manchuria against the Communists. In 1948 he spurned Chiang's offer of the premiership...
Back in the gay days of Manchuria and Munich, when the local R.O.T.C. was still preparing its future cavalry officers with the aid of a band of sturdy polo ponies, Harvard University was possessed of a glorious polo team. Organized as the undergraduate Polo Association the college poloists registered slashing triumphs over Williams, Princeton, and Cornell, and usually climaxed their season with a match against Yale before a cheering throng in Chicago...
...Close to Russia. "We are afraid of another war," the mayor cut in. "Japan needed Manchuria, but it was not good to get so close to Russia. Now the Russians seem to be coming closer to us. We want peace always and we Japanese will try to change the hearts of our officials so that all Japan will work for peace...