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...Proving Ground. The test of the experiment was the conference on the military truce, in which the Special Envoy sat as chairman and mediator. On his left was General Chou Enlai, the Communists' veteran No. 1 negotiator; on his right was General Chang Chun, the Government's progressive-minded governor of Szechwan. There was a variation in this setup during the conference on military reorganization. Then Marshall sat only as adviser. General Chou spoke for the Communists; General Chang Chih-chung, onetime aide-de-camp to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, carried on for the Government...
Intuition and tact made an indispensable formula. At first the Special Envoy could not fathom General Chou's insistence that the Communists needed more time to reorganize their army. Then he got a flash. Would it speed things up if U.S. officers taught the Communists the fundamentals of modern military staff work? General Chou leaped at the suggestion, hurried to Yenan and hurried back with approval. What had held the Communists back was the fear of fumbling and losing face in the process of streamlining their unwieldy forces...
...field teams were a key ingredient in Marshall's experiment. They soon found their task rugged; local commanders were still skirmishing, blocking communications, endangering the whole program. On March 1. the Special Envoy, accompanied by Generals Chou En-lai and Chang Chih-chung, left Happiness Gardens for 3,500 miles of wicked winter flying over north China. In less than a week he visited ten cities and towns, whirled through inspections, receptions and 15-course banquets, heard himself extolled by banner-waving greeters as "Terror of the Evildoers. . . . First Lord of the Warlords. . . . Most Fairly [sic] Friend of China...
...floodlights flanked a wooden desk. One after another, in businesslike fashion, three soldiers sat down at the desk and signed a document. The three soldiers were U.S. General of the Army George C. Marshall, in blouse and pinks; Chinese Government General Chang Chih-chung, in dress uniform; Communist General Chou Enlai, in a sober blue business suit. The document, which might be a turning point in Chinese politics, was an agreement for fusion and reorganization of the Government and Communist Armies...
...knotty details of combining military forces were in the hands of Communist General Chou En-lai and Government Generals Chang Chun and Chang Chih-chung. Last week they called again for counsel on U.S. Special Envoy George C. Marshall, whose astute mediation had played a key part in the truce agreement...