Word: truce
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...land that has seen the most war in the last decade seemed headed for war again. China's half-truce was breaking up, not because any important group wanted hostilities, but because the struggle for control of China boiled down to this: a fight now or a worse fight later...
...Communists offered to relax their stranglehold in return for admission to the Government. As Nanking saw it, this would surely turn out to be a higher price than it looked. Since the successful truce negotiations last spring, more & more Nationalist leaders, including some moderates, had reached the conclusion that a deal with the Communists would be futile because they could not be trusted. What, Nanking asked, would be the point of a coalition in which the Communists still clung to their semi-underground military position as a means of extorting more concessions from the Kuomintang...
...Communist headquarters at Yenan was less circumspect; it announced that Red units had fought marines at Anping, called the battle a consequence of U.S. interference in China. U.S. authorities noted that the convoy had been taking supplies not to Chinese Nationalists, but to a tripartite (Nationalist-Communist-U.S.) truce team trying to avert open civil war in the Peiping area...
...last month General Marshall's man-to-man attempts to get Chiang and Chou En-lai to continue talking peace stalled. He called in Dr. Stuart, asked him to speak to the Nationalist leader. In a few days, Old China Hand Stuart helped Westerner Marshall achieve the truce he sought. And he had given Marshall an idea...
When Chiang hiked his price for peace by demanding that the Communists withdraw from areas they had long controlled in North China, even his closest advisers felt he had decided on war. When he turned around and extended the two-week Manchurian truce by eight days, they were not so sure. Lo Lung-Chi, spokesman for the liberal Democratic League and one of China's keenest politicians, offered his analysis: "The Generalissimo is the kind of man who will rein in his horse at the edge of the cliff...