Word: lai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knotty details of combining military forces were in the hands of Communist General Chou En-lai and Government Generals Chang Chun and Chang Chih-chung. Last week they called again for counsel on U.S. Special Envoy George C. Marshall, whose astute mediation had played a key part in the truce agreement...
...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...
...week's end General Chou emplaned for Yenan. In the Communist capital, for the first time since 1934 a Party Congress was gathering; momentous decisions might be reached. When would Chou En-lai return to Chungking? Darkly he answered: "Not so soon...
Impasse. Having thus shattered the ice in a way more formalized diplomats would have disdained (or perhaps have been unable) to do, General Hurley hitched up his chair and took an earnest part in the serious talks that followed. Few days later he brought Chou En-lai south for more parleys in Chungking. Fortnight ago Chou returned to Yenan with a proposal from Chiang Kai-shek for a Chinese united front (TIME, Dec. 18). For all Pat Hurley's war whoops, his easy jokes, his readiness to act as an intermediary, the gulf between the Communists and the Central...
...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...