Word: envoy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Assistant. Between talks, the Special Envoy walked the streets or climbed the steps of cliffside Chungking. Sometimes he would drive a few miles out to the paddy fields, where a countryman far from his own acres could sample another good earth...
...Special Envoy did not hesitate. "At the risk of entering into theoretical discussion with a group of experts, who should be giving me a definition," he said, "I might say there seem to be a great many definitions of democracy in the world today . . . . The Russians have one, the British have another, we have our own . . . . I can only tell you what many...
...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...
...Special Envoy did not force his opinions. He preferred to state the issues, then let each side express its views. And he always steered the discussion to a specific, written proposal. At the proper psychological moment, he would pour on the catalyzing chemicals of a working democrat...
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...