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This was an open challenge to the Central Government. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek met Yenan's defiance with a crackling reassertion of his acknowledged (but nominal) authority over all China, Free and Communist. To General ChuTeh he wired: Communist forces "must remain in their posts and wait for further directions. . . . To maintain the dignity of Government mandates and abide safely by decisions of "the Allies, all our troops are warned hereby never again to take independent action...
Cried an anonymous Yenan "commentator" : Generalissimo Chiang was guilty of an "out-and-out attempt to instigate civil war. . . ." General Chu Teh's troops had "the right to send their representatives directly to participate in accepting a Japanese surrender by the Allies, in the military control of Japan, and in the coming peace conference...
...vice chairman of the joint administration office of the four Government banks it appointed Premier Soong (chairman: Generalissimo Chiang). T. V. replaced his ailing brother-in-law, H. H. ("Daddy") Kung, 64, onetime top man of Chinese finance and administration, now virtually retired from public office...
Cried Radio Yenan: Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's troops, "corrupt and rabble-like" (but armed with "large numbers of field guns, trench mortars and American-supplied bazookas") had attacked Communist troops in the Shensi border region. It was "fullscale civil war. . . . Chiang's divisions declared that fighting the Communists comes first and fighting the Japanese comes second...
Perhaps the Communist regime had resolved that there should be no peace and unity with Chungking. More probably, Yenan might be exerting pressure to make Chungking more receptive to Russian plans for East Asia. Those plans, presumably, had been the subject of last month's "suspended" talks between Generalissimo Joseph Stalin and Premier T. V. Soong, which would soon be resumed...