Word: mao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They had stubborn leadership, personified by a veteran tactician of civil war and a veteran of the Comintern, tall, lumbering Mao Tse-tung, who in 1939 preached: "An important part of our political line is armed struggle . . . [to] convert an imperialistic war [so-called by all Communists, before the invasion of Russia] into a revolutionary civil...
Then the Generalissimo made one more try for unity. To Yenan's leader, Mao Tse-tung, he wired: "May I humbly invite you to come to Chungking immediately? We will discuss things in person. This involves our national welfare. Please do not decline. Yours most anxiously...
From Yenan came Mao's reply to Chiang: "I shall consider the question of meeting you after you express your opinion about General Chu Teh's telegram." This was followed by another telegram from Chu Teh, demanding Communist co-authority to receive the surrender of Japanese forces. "You must publicly admit your mistake," said Chu Teh to Chiang, "and publicly retract your order. . ..." The alternative: civil...
From Chungking to Yenan went an invitation: would Communist leaders Mao Tse-tung, Chou Enlai, Tung Pi-wu, Lin Tsu-han, Chen Shao-yu and Teng Yingchao (Mrs. Chou Enlai) attend the July meeting of the People's Political Council, which will plan a national constitutional assembly? From Yenan to Chungking went a curt reply...
...years had the Generalissimo and his one-party regime turned a more promising face toward liberalism and democracy. But from Yenan's one-party regime came only snorts of doubt and disapproval. The Seventh Chinese Communist Congress had just met. Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung, Communist Chief of Staff General Chu Teh and other party leaders bravely flexed their political muscles and claimed that they commanded a regular army of 910,000 men (last fall it was 570,000), 2,200,000 partisans, 1,200,000 party members and territories inhabited by 95,000,000 Chinese. They called Chiang...