Word: yenan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prospect from Yenan. The Communists did not want a resumption of civil war. They had even less chance than the Government of winning an outright victory. Besides, they were sitting pretty; they blocked recovery, and the Government got the blame for the result. If they were admitted to the Government, so much the better; they could increase their military power and political patronage...
...traveled the country far & wide, stayed aloof from China's politics, met and endeared himself to Chinese of every stripe. More important, he came to be well known and trusted by Chiang Kaishek, Madame Chiang, Premier T. V. Soong and Communist negotiator Chou En-lai (some of Communist Yenan's leaders are Yenching graduates...
...conciliation. He proposed that Marshall be empowered to act as supreme arbiter in all Communist-Nationalist disputes. Chou hedged: "We've trusted Marshall, but to trust him and to give him arbitrary power are two different things." In Marshall's personal plane Chou took the proposal to Yenan where Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung was deciding whether it is to be peace or war for China...
According to Yenan, the Communists were sending back to Government lines the bodies of Government troops in coffins "as an expression of a sincere desire for peace and unity." This week Generalissimo Chiang made another gesture of compromise; he invited General Chou and other leaders to tea and a discussion of their differences...
...could not fathom General Chou's insistence that the Communists needed more time to reorganize their army. Then he got a flash. Would it speed things up if U.S. officers taught the Communists the fundamentals of modern military staff work? General Chou leaped at the suggestion, hurried to Yenan and hurried back with approval. What had held the Communists back was the fear of fumbling and losing face in the process of streamlining their unwieldy forces...