Word: yenan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley kept up his efforts to bring about agreement. Meanwhile, reported the President's investigator: "Chiang said that Americans expect his Government to make all the concessions. Why don't we [the U.S.] try to get the Yenan group to make some...
...Mansfield, Chiang's suggestion for U.S. pressure on Yenan's Communists made sound sense. But he regarded continued U.S. support of Chiang as making even sounder sense. Said...
Last week over the Yenan radio Mao Tse-tung angrily spurned the Generalissimo's offer. Cried Mao: The Chungking Government is "defeatist . . . obstinate in holding to a one-party dictatorship." Recent parleys, he said, had not "attained the least result." China was still cleft...
Meeting in Yenan. A rush phone call had summoned Yenan's Big Four-Communist Party Secretary Mao Tse-tung, Generals Chou Enlai, Chu Teh and Yeh Chien-ying. They sped to the airport in Mao's private car (a converted ambulance), ran pell-mell across the field to greet their American guest. As he had with the Russians in 1942, 1943 and 1944, Pat Hurley hailed them like long-lost friends...
...more formalized diplomats would have disdained (or perhaps have been unable) to do, General Hurley hitched up his chair and took an earnest part in the serious talks that followed. Few days later he brought Chou En-lai south for more parleys in Chungking. Fortnight ago Chou returned to Yenan with a proposal from Chiang Kai-shek for a Chinese united front (TIME, Dec. 18). For all Pat Hurley's war whoops, his easy jokes, his readiness to act as an intermediary, the gulf between the Communists and the Central Government was still unbridged...