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...Vision. Mao and General Chou had chafed under Chiang's simultaneous airborne seizures and roundtable amenities. Moscow had signed a broad treaty with Chiang's China at a time when China's Communists were hardest pressed. At least for the present, Mao could not count on outside support...
Atmosphere of 1924. That night the Generalissimo wined & dined Mao. Other guests included Ambassador Hurley, tactful Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, commander of U.S. forces in China, and round-faced General Chou Enlai, China's No. 2 Communist. Chiang and Mao toasted each other in yellow wine. The Communist leader quaffed his cup; the Generalissimo (a teetotaler) barely wet his lips. Said Chiang: "I hope we can have the cordial atmosphere...
...modern China. In 1924 the Communists were part of Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary people's party, the Kuomintang. Chiang, just back from military training in Moscow, had the job of organizing the Whampoa Military Academy, the nucleus of China's new nationalist army. Mao and Chou were his comrades and the army's political commissars. From Canton the three men marched together on the famed Northern Expedition (1926-27), which gave republican China its first taste of unity. They split when Chiang broke with the Kuomintang's Communist wing and its Russian boss, shrewd...
...replied that he would send the No. 2 Communist and veteran negotiator, General Chou Enlai...
...week's end Mao gave in, with Chinese punctilio: "Mr. Chiang Kai-shek ... I appreciate your telegram. My humble self is most willing to come to Chungking. . . . Chou En-lai is leaving as soon as your plane arrives. Your younger brother is preparing to come in the immediate future. . . ." Chungking reported that U.S. Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley would go to Yenan to escort Mao to Chiang...