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...next day Li himself flew down to install members of the unofficial delegation. Heading the mission is 72-year-old Dr. W. W. Yen, former ambassador to Russia, who accepted the post only after his doctor declared him physically fit for his first airplane ride...
From Peiping the Reds sent a clearance for the plane to land, as well as reservations for all at the Wagons-Lits Hotel. Said Dr. Yen: "We have no authority to negotiate [but] we will tell the Communists how much the people down here want peace...
...Tsaolaochi, a grey brick station-house with a mud-walled village behind it, Nationalist forces had just set up a forward headquarters. Under General Li Yen-nien, commander of the Sixth Army Group, two field armies, the 99th. and the 54th, about 50,000 strong, were pressing northwestward in an attempt to join hands with the Twelfth Nationalist Army Group at Suhsien, 25 miles away. In a battered G.M.C. ten-wheeler truck, we lurched after them...
...expanse of craggy peaks with terraces stepped up the sides and brown parched river valleys. Taiyuan's danger could be seen with the naked eye. The walls of the square city hug the slope of a mountain range sprinkled with pillboxes held by the Communists. Marshal Yen's forces hold a line past the first group of hills to the west, where Taiyuan's rich coal and iron resources are mined. From positions as close as two miles from the walls the Reds can plunk artillery shells into the city and blanket two good airfields...
...left to catch our plane back to Peiping, the old man still sat at his desk fingering the poison vials. Above his head bas-relief characters in gold on a red background spelled out Yen's maxim: "I can be patient...