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Communist China now claims 80,000,000 people and 1,000,000 square miles of territory. For five years it has been a land of mystery to the outside world. Last May Chungking lifted its blockade, let foreign correspondents enter the Border Region, the Communist area in Shensi, Kansu and Ninghsia...
...Szechwan alone the grain yield would be at least 250,000,000 piculs (600,000,000 bushels), or 40 to 50% above last year. Kansu, Honan, and Shensi had already harvested their biggest wheat crops in 15 years. Yunnan, too, expected a bumper crop. In the great metropolitan collection depots the Government's rat-proof bins bulged with grain piled in wicker baskets twice as high as a man's head. River junks and sampans had to be used for emergency grain storage...
Fortress Town. The visit to Kenanpo was a side trip on the way to Yenan, Communist China's capital in the province of Shensi, barred to correspondents since 1939. First stop in Shensi was at Sian, since 1937 the Kuomintang's key military and political bastion against the Communist threat. There the correspondents were handsomely wined & dined. Dense crowds lined the streets, breaking into staccato cheers at a given signal. Waiters had "V" for Victory hastily stitched on their caps. A plane had brought them to the capital of Shensi; busses and horses would take them over...
...midnight, a U.S. newsman slipped through the windows of the Sian Guest House, evaded sleepy sentries, slopped through the mud of Shensi's capital to a dark crossroad. Muffled, slippered figures challenged him in low tones. Satisfied, the Chinese motioned the foreigner into a v;aiting truck. At dawn the truck was 30 miles beyond the border of Kuomintang China, lurching through the mountains toward Yenan, capital of Communist China. The year...
...fact that some still hold private profit above the national interest, by the oppression of the peasantry and by the absence of a true labor movement. . . . Some Chinese reactionaries are preparing [civil war] to destroy a democratic sector in our struggle. That sector is the guerrilla bases in North Shensi and behind the enemy lines...