Word: manchurian
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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What was not said was that the U.S. conferees wanted to take punitive action against the Chinese invaders, e.g., blockade China's ports, bomb Manchurian supply centers, supply and encourage Chiang Kai-shek and anti-Communist guerrillas on China's mainland. The British were against any such "limited war." They doubted that it was possible to limit war, and believed that most of their friends in the U.N. supported this view...
...Reds drive south of the 38th parallel, then we ought to hit Manchurian industries, arsenals and power dams with conventional bombs. We ought to impose at once a blockade of the entire China coast and give extended aid to the Nationalists on Formosa. We are absolutely against any more concessions to Communism...
...National commanders of four veterans' groups (American Legion, V.F.W., Disabled American Veterans and Amvets) wrote President Truman a joint letter urging him to give General Douglas MacArthur full authority to bomb Manchurian bases...
...heavy equipment was being loaded rapidly onto ships at Inchon. If Korea were in fact abandoned, it could be done without abandoning the policy of punishing aggression. Mao's China could be effectively punished elsewhere-for example, by blockade and bombardment of the China coast, and bombing of Manchurian industry...
...effectiveness of the U.N. air force had been severely limited by the fact that, like U.N. ground and naval forces, it was forbidden to strike at the enemy's main Manchurian bases-"an enormous handicap unprecedented in military history." But the real reason for the U.N.'s reverses, said MacArthur, was sheer weight of numbers. "As far as I can see," said MacArthur, "no strategical or tactical mistakes were made of any basic proportion...