Word: lai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Historical Crossroads. In Nanking, behind the grey brick walls of Communist headquarters, gloom thickened. Communist Negotiator Chou En-lai defiantly walked out on "senseless" negotiations with peace emissary Dr. Leighton Stuart, and accused the U.S. of "complicity" with the Chinese Government in fanning the civil war. He flatly rejected a renewed Government offer to participate in the government and in the Chinese National Assembly scheduled for November. Said Information Minister Peng Hsueh-pei: "The Communist Party is now standing at a historical crossroads. . . . Do the Communists want to continue their attempts to seize political power by armed force...
...participate in a five-man committee to discuss a coalition Government (i.e., a national council). Instead they suddenly proposed to discuss a cease-fire order through a three-man committee set up last January, dormant since June and now composed of General George Marshall, Communist Negotiator Chou En-lai and the National Government's General Hsu Yung-chang. By cease-fire the Communists meant the return to Communist control of all territory won by the Government in the past six weeks. They flatly declared that if the fighting were not stopped, and the Government persisted in its "unilateral" plans...
...Newcomers. Not Chou En-lai but two lesser Communists, Wang Ping-nan and Liao" Cheng-chi, publicly made the secession threat. Both came some months ago from Chungking to Nanking, where they have been relatively obscure members of the Communist delegation. Wang is solemn, homely, rather likable. He is direct, clipped in speech, and generally uses an interpreter though he understands English well. His wife is a Polish Communist, who is said to have strong influence over him. Liao also speaks excellent English, out of the corner of his mouth. The emergence of Wang and Liao, like the emergence...
...Lisan had lost face. His young rivals for party leadership, Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai (until then an executioner for the Communist Party in Shanghai), insisted that the Communists in China should henceforth base their shattered movement on the dissatisfied peasants. Li insisted that it must be based on the factory workers. In a fierce, undercover, dialectic struggle, Li Lisan was forced out of the leadership. He went to Russia, where friends got him a job in Moscow's famed Far Eastern University, training ground for Russia's Asiatic agents. He married a Russian wife. Meanwhile...
...week's end Communist General Chou En-lai demanded that the U.S. end all aid to Nationalist China or openly support Chiang Kai-shek in "the total all-out civil war." He attacked particularly the sale to the Nanking Government of $800 million of surplus U.S. civilian goods left in the Far East by departing U.S. forces...