Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Snow found Soviet China a territory about the size of England. He was welcomed by wiry, black-bearded Red Commander Chou Enlai, scion of a Mandarin family, one-time head of Whampoa Academy (Chiang Kai-shek's officers' training school), who suggested a 92-day itinerary, gave Snow permission to write as he pleased. Astonished at the youthfulness of the Red Army personnel (average age of its officers was 24, of its rank & file, 19), Snow was more astonished by the background of Red Army leaders. One was Commander-in-Chief Chu Teh, an "old-shoe sort...
...Red leader who made the greatest impression on Snow was 44-year- old Mao Tse-tung, "Lincolnesque" Chairman of the Chinese People's Soviet Government, a peasant who turned classical scholar, organized the Communist Party in China, and became as well-known to Chinese as Chiang Kai-shek when Chiang Kai-shek put a price of $250,000 on his head. Evenings, perched on a stool inside Mao's solid-stone hut, Snow slowly took down Mao's patiently dictated autobiography. Incorporated into Red Star Over China, it makes a valuable document in its own right. When...
...passes of the Tibet mountains, through the swampy wastes of the grasslands in west China, twice missed annihilation by a hair in crossing treacherous, enemy-held rivers. On Oct. 20, 1935. 368 days after their evacuation of south China, the 20,000 survivors of the Red Army arrived in the small Soviet of Shensi...
...Red Star Over China contains a brief, complicated but convincing account of the Sian Mutiny. Last week a detailed study of this affair was published by Snow's sub-correspondent James Bertram (FIRST ACT IN CHINA, Viking, $3) which gives a sympathetic portrait of The Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang. captor of Chiang Kaishek...
...japes because hard times kept him from practicing law, Morgan became secretary of the burlesque secret society, turned it into a serious organization called The New Confederacy of the Iroquois. To work up authentic initiation ceremonies he visited nearby Indian reservations. Soon he had become more interested in the red man's lore than in the white man's law, presently had the New Confederacy giving 30% of its income for Indian welfare...