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...During the days of the united front in China (1938-39) before the Stalin-Matsu-oka pact, my husband [George Fitch] went to Yenan from Chungking with Chou Enlai...
...which 30,000 Communists trekked 6,000 miles in 368 days to the northwest to escape Chiang's armies. One writer described him in those days: "His chin veiled by a black beard, Chou would ride a bristle-maned Mongolian pony out through the stone arches of Yenan. His only badge of rank as he cantered through the yellow hills were the caps of two fountain pens peeping out of the breast pocket of his shirt...
Miss Strong went to China in 1945. For the next two years she lived in the then Communist capital of Yenan. She made a nine months' tour of Communist conquered territory before leaving China...
MARSHALL: "There was no doubt [in my mind] that the leadership of this group were Marxist Communists and so stated in my presence and insisted, in my presence, that they were. And when I visited Yenan . . . over the proscenium arch [of the meeting hall] was a large picture of Lenin and a large picture of Stalin...
Illusions Die Hard. The diplomats, says Utley, were buttressed by "a minority of writers, professors and lecturers representing the pro-Chinese Communist views of the State Department." Upon many of these publicists, "Yenan, the Chinese Communist capital, exerted a fatal fascination." The proCommunist, or anti-Nationalist, coterie in the 1940's "enjoyed what amounted to a closed shop in the book-reviewing field . . . Week after week, and year after year, most books on China were reviewed by [the same people] with the same point of view." They included Owen Lattimore; Theodore (Thunder Out of China) White and his collaborator...