Word: yenan
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...Communist state's opinion on the atomic bomb also noteworthy. No. 2, of course, is Communist China, which, in the words of Anna Louise Strong, has "an area almost equal to that part of the United States east of the Mississippi River." As Anna Louise left Yenan this week, after a sympathetic stint of several months, she had "the privilege of a final talk with Mao Tse-tung...
...Yenan promptly chose war. Said a Communist spokesman: "There is no more mediation. The only way out is to fight." General Chiang had long held similar views. As an old hand at China's cowboy-&-Indian style warfare, he was sure he could defeat the Communists in an all-out drive...
...project Todd last summer had won the cooperation of Chinese Nationalists and Chinese Communists. But last week the Communists were demanding a five-month postponement of further work on the river. In Yenan, Communist Spokesman Chou En-lai gave the official Communist reason: "It would destroy the lives and property of several million people" living in the path of the river's projected diversion. The Reds charged that resettlement of these millions had been delayed by the Nationalists' failure to make good a promised $15 billion CN ($4.5 million U.S.) relief payment to local Communist authorities...
...accomplish these traditional Communist ends, China's Reds are prepared to use traditional Communist means. Yenan's ruthless strategy is as old as Lenin's: "The Communists, by their unwillingness to compromise in the national interest, are evidently counting on an economic collapse to bring about the fall of the Government, accelerated by extensive guerrilla action against the long lines of rail communications-regardless of the cost in suffering to the Chinese people...
Communists, who have boycotted the National Assembly, will not recognize the new Constitution. A Yenan spokesman admitted that all participants in the People's Consultation Conference had agreed on the principles of the Constitution, but he nevertheless declared it "illegal." It was not, he said, the kind of Constitution that Communists could approve...