Word: mao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then came the announcement. On many of the secondary issues, the Generalissimo and Communist Mao were hearteningly close. But on the primary issues, the issues basic to China's national weal, they were still far apart...
Hope & Reality. Chiang and Mao put the maximum emphasis upon their area of agreement-in principle...
Somewhat less elated and carefree were the men who held the fate of nearly a fifth of mankind in their hands. On the eve of the national anniversary they were seated around a banqueting table in Chungking. Guest of honor was Mao Tse-tung, the Communist leader from Yenan, a man with destiny written in his strong face. Opposite him sat one of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's chief negotiators, shrewd General Chang Chih-chung. For 45 seesawing days the two men, backed by their aides, had pitted plan against plan to heal the breach between Communist China...
...Vision. Mao and General Chou had chafed under Chiang's simultaneous airborne seizures and roundtable amenities. Moscow had signed a broad treaty with Chiang's China at a time when China's Communists were hardest pressed. At least for the present, Mao could not count on outside support...
...reports were distorted reflections of maneuvers for position by both sides. 2) Chiang and Mao were no closer on the fundamental issue-who should control the Communist armies and the Communist state-within-a-state-than they had been at the start. A.P. predicted that the talks would probably end this week. It looked as if Chiang Kai-shek might have to find other means to complete the unification of China...