Word: yenan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo's surrender offer, Yenan's able commander in chief, General Chu Teh, rushed an order to his Communist armies: they must take over the arms of all "enemy troops" in their zones of operation. They must also take over all "administrative matters in Japanese-and puppet-occupied cities, towns and communication centers. . . . Any sabotage and resistance against the above measures will be treated as treason...
This was an open challenge to the Central Government. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek met Yenan's defiance with a crackling reassertion of his acknowledged (but nominal) authority over all China, Free and Communist. To General ChuTeh he wired: Communist forces "must remain in their posts and wait for further directions. . . . To maintain the dignity of Government mandates and abide safely by decisions of "the Allies, all our troops are warned hereby never again to take independent action...
Cried an anonymous Yenan "commentator" : Generalissimo Chiang was guilty of an "out-and-out attempt to instigate civil war. . . ." General Chu Teh's troops had "the right to send their representatives directly to participate in accepting a Japanese surrender by the Allies, in the military control of Japan, and in the coming peace conference...
Perhaps the Communist regime had resolved that there should be no peace and unity with Chungking. More probably, Yenan might be exerting pressure to make Chungking more receptive to Russian plans for East Asia. Those plans, presumably, had been the subject of last month's "suspended" talks between Generalissimo Joseph Stalin and Premier T. V. Soong, which would soon be resumed...
...Radio Yenan also had a bad word for Chungking's No. 1 ally, the U.S. American policy toward China (said Yenan) has become "definitely imperialistic"; it seeks to reduce China to a "colony or semi-colony" ; U.S. Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley (who tried valiantly to bring Chungking and Yenan together) is responsible for an anti-Communist shift in U.S. policy; he had misrepresented the situation to Washington; China must now choose between the "false democracy supported by the U.S. and the real democracy sponsored by the Chinese Communist Party...