Word: yenan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese Premier had sought Russian support for China's fight against Japan and a Russian pledge not to recognize the Chinese Communist regime. Stalin indicated that he would give the pledge on three conditions : 1 ) China must be democratized through a coalition government worked out between Chungking and Yenan; 2) China must agree to special Russian rights in Sinkiang, Outer Mongolia and China's northern provinces; 3) China must agree to Korea's independence...
...could not agree to special political status for Russia in Sinkiang, which would jeopardize China's sovereign rights. Nor could he assent to naval or air bases for Russia in Manchuria. As to China's democratization, Chungking had long striven for it and for an understanding with Yenan. The Russians felt that a durable accord between Moscow and Chungking must be preceded by peace between Generalissimo Chiang's Government and the Chinese Communists. T.V., it was decided, would report back to Chungking, return to Moscow next month...
...more than a year a Free Japan Committee, organized along the lines of Moscow's Free Germany Committee, has been active in Yenan. The official name of the committee is the Japanese People's Liberation Alliance. Wrote brilliant Biographer Boris J. Nicolaevsky (Aseff the Spy) in Manhattan's socialist New Leader...
Their purpose, said the Yenan radio, was to promote the national war effort against Japan, to give vigor to the democratic groups throughout China and the "formation of a coalition government as well as the liberation of the Chinese people." The present meeting was only a preparatory committee to set the date and technical details for a full-dress conference of the people's representatives of liberated China...
...news shocked Chungking, where the People's Political Council is in session. The National Government feared that Yenan might declare itself independent...