Word: mao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...west had hardly been established before stories of even more drastic unification came out of the Communist area of northern China. They were Communist stories, unconfirmed at week's end by Chiang or anybody else in Chungking. Their substance: while the Generalissimo was negotiating with Communist Mao Tse-tung in Chungking, three of Chiang's armies had attacked Communist forces in Communist-controlled Shansi province, Kwantung, the Yangtze basin, and north of the Yellow River. In some instances, said the Communists, Chiang's troops had invoked the aid of Japanese and puppet forces. Already the Communists...
Five weeks of meetings between Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung had been cloaked in profound official silence. But Chungking buzzed with expectation-and hope...
...later Mao himself, smiling and assured, emerged to answer a correspond ent's questions. He said carefully: "I am confident of the outcome of the negotiations. . . . The Chinese Communist Party is prepared to make important concessions. . . . I believe that . . . an agreement, not temporary in character but one which will ensure long-term peaceful reconstruction, will emerge." Mao refused to contemplate deadlock and bloody civil war. He declared emphatically: "I do not believe that the negotiations could break down. Under whatever condition, the Chi nese Communist Party will persist in a policy of avoiding civil war. There may be difficulties...
...Unity In China." Then came the strongest pronouncement yet. No longer hinting, but flatly telling, Radio Moscow proclaimed that Chiang and Mao had reached agreement, added that "a complete central unified government will be created for the whole of China." Moscow gave no details, but asserted that the new government would have wider political representation, that "an early election will be held throughout China." China's armed forces, added Moscow, would be demobilized. The broadcast, attributing much credit to the recent Sino-Russian treaty (TIME, Aug. 27), ended with the categorical statement: ". . . Unity in China has been established...
...sides. China's treaty with Russia had stabilized her external relations; agreement with Communist China would restore her internal equilibrium. Russia was preoccupied with pressing European matters, also needed time to reabsorb her Asiatic conquests. At the very least, the Moscow broadcast bespoke a willingness to agree that Mao could hardly ignore...