Word: yenan
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...