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...from the family. Last week, at 48, Peng Teh-huai, as the second ranking general of Communist China, was still going strong. He was basking in kudos from the Communist Central Committee for the "brilliant victory" he had scored over a Nationalist force at Ichuan, 60 miles southeast of Yenan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Tears for the Valiant | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...months had passed since Nationalist forces seized Yenan, stronghold of North China's Communists (TIME, March 31). Yenan's fall promised better things to come. But U.S. leaders hemmed & hawed over aid to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek; inflation and political rivalries gnawed at the morale of his people. Gradually, the initiative passed back to the far-from-whipped Communist armies of Mao Tse-tung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Worse & Worse | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...again in China-the 36th anniversary of the founding of Sun Yat-sen's republic. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek flew back to Nanking from a tour of battlefronts, and broadcast to the nation. Proudly he ticked off the year's brighter spots: capture of the Communist capital, Yenan; the mopping up on the coast of Shantung. Then he made a promise about what was happening north of the Great Wall: "We will not lightly yield one single inch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Autumn Offensive | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...Somewhere north of their former capital, Yenan, was Communist headquarters for all China. In that area the Reds had enough troops to threaten the recapture of Yenan itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: All-Out | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...suppressed the opium traffic) had enough forces to defend his dilapidated capital, Taiyuan. But he could not move against the Communists who now held almost three-fifths of the province. A lot of Communists had filtered into rich south Shansi when the Government withdrew troops for the attack on Yenan. "We traded a fat cow for a skeleton," say bitter men in Taiyuan. Shansi people used to admire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Gloom | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

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