Word: yenan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once the Assembly finished its job, Chiang could proceed with reorganization of the State Council and Executive Yuan, might promulgate the new constitution on New Year's Day. He would also be in a strong position for a final appeal to the Chinese Communists at Yenan...
Smashed Window. In this area, the economic plexus centering on Kalgan, the Japs built and left largely intact an ambitious and forward-looking economic plant. The Communists fell heir to the prize, which served them as a powerful corridor between Yenan and Manchuria and a "show window" of policy for all the nation. Not only did they fail to defend this area militarily, but as they fell back before the Government armies they kicked in the show window, leaving a destructive disarray appalling in a nation so economically needy as China...
...troops besieged Communist Chefoo. Across the Yellow Sea in Manchuria, Lieut. General Tu Li-ming's Government armies were clearing out the peninsula south of captured Antung, preparing for the climactic drive on Harbin (see map). In that target city and in the now-isolated Red capital of Yenan, there was no observance of Chiang Kai-shek's natal...
Squeeze Play. Strategically, the fall of Antung was a greater blow to the Communists than Kalgan, where they had lost land communications between Yenan and their Manchurian headquarters, Harbin. Across the 240-mile-wide neck of the Yellow Sea a great fleet of junks had plied, bringing captured Japanese arms to the Shantung Communists, ferrying Eighth Route Army soldiers to Manchuria. The Nationalist Victory pocketed the Shantung Reds between the Tsingtao-Tsinan Railway and the sea; and in Manchuria, it strengthened the Government flank for the ultimate drive north on Harbin...
...Australia, Indo-China, India, Burma and Sinkiang during the hottest times of the war. He flew so many combat missions with the Fourteenth Air Force (and was awarded the Air Medal) that the editors at home finally ordered him to stop risking his life. He visited Communist headquarters at Yenan. He did not leave China for good until he had flown to see the surrender at Tokyo...