Word: yenan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only last week did reports from Yenan, the Communist capital, tell what life is now like over there...
Fortress Town. The visit to Kenanpo was a side trip on the way to Yenan, Communist China's capital in the province of Shensi, barred to correspondents since 1939. First stop in Shensi was at Sian, since 1937 the Kuomintang's key military and political bastion against the Communist threat. There the correspondents were handsomely wined & dined. Dense crowds lined the streets, breaking into staccato cheers at a given signal. Waiters had "V" for Victory hastily stitched on their caps. A plane had brought them to the capital of Shensi; busses and horses would take them over...
...through the mud of Shensi's capital to a dark crossroad. Muffled, slippered figures challenged him in low tones. Satisfied, the Chinese motioned the foreigner into a v;aiting truck. At dawn the truck was 30 miles beyond the border of Kuomintang China, lurching through the mountains toward Yenan, capital of Communist China. The year...
Since 1939, no U.S. correspondent has visited Yenan; the Central Government's military cordon around Communist China has effectively halted arms, munitions, medical supplies, funds and correspondents...
...Yenan the city is no magnet to correspondents. Battered by continuous Jap bombings, it is a rubble heap inside ancient mud-and-stone walls; its inhabitants live in caves carved from the yellow loess mountains. But it is the political capital of North China's guerrilla areas with their 30 to 40 million inhabitants, and the military headquarters of a potentially powerful force of 500,000 regulars (a new high), perhaps a million irregulars...