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...retreating Chinese Communists, leaving behind their legendary capital, Yenan, filtered northward to other centers of Red strength. Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist troops, commanded by stocky, dependable General Hu Tsung-nan, marched in, took down the huge poster of Communist Chieftain Mao Tse-tung flapping by the south gate, raised the twelve-rayed sun flag of the Government. After ten years, Yenan ("Permanent Peace") had fallen...
Karl von Clausewitz had said, "Public opinion is won through great victories and the occupation of the enemy's capital." The fall of Yenan was no great victory, but it would have a marked effect on Chinese opinion, strengthen confidence in Chiang's ultimate victory...
...Dust. For a decade Yenan's loess caves had generated the trained personnel and the gospel of Red China. Young Communists of other Asiatic lands (including Sanzo Nozaka, brains of the Japanese party) had sheltered and studied there. In remote corners of Asia, the faithful would hear of the fall of Yenan with something of the inner shock that word of the fall of Mecca might bring to the Moslem world...
Distant, dusty, and millennially old, Yenan had been the ideal Communist capital-equally inaccessible to invading Japs and preoccupied Nationalists. Now that it was indefensible against Chiang, the Communists would continue the fight in other areas, such as the Communist pocket in coastal Shantung Province and, preeminently, on the Manchurian front. (Last week Shanghai heard that Russian troops were at long last pulling out of Dairen...
There was no question but that China's Communists viewed the plight of the Nationalist Government with relish. They liked U.S. no-policy even better than U.S. mediation. Departing from Peiping for Yenan by plane last week, Communist Commissioner Yeh Chien-ying cried: "Long live Chinese-American cooperation...