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China is full-of-feudal warlords of greater and lesser potentialities, all maintaining troops like these husky looking soldiers above. They are all fi(...)
China is full-of-feudal warlords of greater and lesser potentialities, all maintaining troops like these husky looking soldiers above. They are all fi(...)

China is full-of-feudal warlords of greater and lesser potentialities, all maintaining troops like these husky looking soldiers above. They are all fi(...)

Date10/9/1948
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Original Toronto Star caption: China is full-of-feudal warlords of greater and lesser potentialities; all maintaining troops like these husky looking soldiers above. They are all fiercely anti-Communist and may become last-ditch holdouts against communism if the government should fall.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0002284F
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