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Meeting in Yenan. A rush phone call had summoned Yenan's Big Four-Communist Party Secretary Mao Tse-tung, Generals Chou Enlai, Chu Teh and Yeh Chien-ying. They sped to the airport in Mao's private car (a converted ambulance), ran pell-mell across the field to greet their American guest. As he had with the Russians in 1942, 1943 and 1944, Pat Hurley hailed them like long-lost friends...
...Problem. It would not be an easy fight. One of the main problems confronting T.V. was a settlement of China's civil war. Last week a truce between the Chungking Government and Communist Yenan seemed in the making. Communist envoy Chou En-lai had delivered Yenan's latest demand for a coalition government. Chiang Kai-shek still shook his head; he was "still opposed, as the head of any independent nation must be, to an armed state within a state. But he had made a counteroffer. Its details not disclosed, Chungking said authoritatively that the Generalissimo...
...officiated at his wedding), General Chen is a veteran of Kuomintang campaigns against warlords and Communists. But of all Kuomintang generals, he is generally regarded as persona gratissima with the Communists. A realist who is perfectly sure of his own democratic political faith, he gets along easily with Chou Enlai, Yenan's shrewd emissary who last week was back in Chungking...
...Kuomintang bigwig Chen Li-fu, who took over the Ministry of Kuomintang Organization. Liberal, professorial Dr. Wang Shih-chieh became Minister of Information, replacing Liang Han-chao, who received the portfolio of Overseas Affairs. Chang Li-sheng, Secretary General of the Executive Yuan, became Minister of the Interior, replacing Chou Chung-yao, who took the vice-presidency of the Examination Yuan...
Last week the long-smoldering quarrel between Kuomintang and Communist Governments blew up in a shower of sparks. From the Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Chou En-lai came an ugly cry: "There is danger of civil war." In Chungking, Information Minister Liang Han-chao snapped back: "There is no danger of civil...