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...believe that it would be within the capacity of the Soviet to mass any great additional increment of force to launch any predatory attack from the Asiatic continent ... All of the sustenance that goes in in such major quantity to support armed forces must pass over that railway line which runs from European Russia across Siberia. That line is strained to the very utmost now to maintain on a normal peace basis the forces which the Soviet maintains in Siberia ... I believe that the dispositions of the Soviet forces are largely defensive . . . The weakness of Red China ... is a corollary...
...brass band avoided the mortar-crumpled south gate and the shattered railway station where, on Children's Day as on all other days, the abandoned, the homeless, the orphans prowled restlessly, begging, stealing, conniving to stay alive. They screamed "chop-chop" (food) at G.I.s, hovered hungrily around the soldiers who uncomfortably ate their rations...
...come to nearly $7 billion-33% of all U.S. foreign investments. Americans directly control at least 25% of Canadian manufacturing industry. And they own major chunks of most of the Dominion's greatest industrial mammoths. Since 1944 for example, U.S. ownership of voting stock in the Canadian Pacific Railway has climbed from...
...tell the people what the symptoms are and where to go for treatment. The ratio of doctors is admittedly poor. So is our individual output. This is not due to the present government, but to thousands of years of feudalism and one hundred years of Imperialism. Our railway milege now exceeds that of pre-war China...
Elsewhere in South Korea, there were schools in railway stations, in gutted houses, in tents and in cemeteries. With or without books ("Teach from life!" Paik had ordered his bookless teachers), students were flocking again to classes in geography, math, English, science, art and civics. The girls helped to support their schools by raising chickens and selling eggs; the boys were beginning to rebuild their classrooms. At Andong, students have already made themselves three new school buildings of basket-woven sides plastered with...