Word: tung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effect, the "small war" was a Clausewitzian extension of the political talks begun in August by Communist Chairman Mao Tse-tung and Generalissimo Chiang's negotiators, and recessed last month. The suspended but by no means abandoned negotiations and the military maneuverings were inextricably intermixed. The more either side could gain in the field, the less would be left to negotiation. The more they finally settled by negotiation, the less they would have to fight about...
...shared a universal, overwhelming desire for peace. Statesmen, generals, common soldiers, peasants, townsmen wanted only to end the fighting-all fighting-and get on with the rebuilding of China's individual and national life. This vast yearning pressed alike upon the Generalissimo in Chungking and upon Mao Tse-tung in Yenan. In it lay the best hope that China would find national security short of all-out civil war, and that the thousands of Americans within the sound of Chinese guns would come safely home...
Somewhat less elated and carefree were the men who held the fate of nearly a fifth of mankind in their hands. On the eve of the national anniversary they were seated around a banqueting table in Chungking. Guest of honor was Mao Tse-tung, the Communist leader from Yenan, a man with destiny written in his strong face. Opposite him sat one of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's chief negotiators, shrewd General Chang Chih-chung. For 45 seesawing days the two men, backed by their aides, had pitted plan against plan to heal the breach between Communist China...
...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...