Word: yenan
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...Australia, Indo-China, India, Burma and Sinkiang during the hottest times of the war. He flew so many combat missions with the Fourteenth Air Force (and was awarded the Air Medal) that the editors at home finally ordered him to stop risking his life. He visited Communist headquarters at Yenan. He did not leave China for good until he had flown to see the surrender at Tokyo...
...victory, the Gissimo had, just before Kalgan's fall, acquiesced to Marshall's proposal for a ten-day truce that would have javed the Red city. Communist negotiator Chou En-lai turned down the truce and let Kalgan go, though its loss drove a wedge between Communist Yenan and the Reds' Manchurian rampart. Kalgan's capture was the climax and the symbol of six months of campaigning in which the Government army had been more successful than impartial observers had expected. In addition to several Red cities (notably Chengteh ana Changchun) they had cleared many miles...
...Yenan, defiant Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung called for unlimited guerrilla warfare from hundreds of Red village bases. In Manchuria, Communist Li Lisan, who had opposed Mao in internal Communist politics 20 years ago (TIME, Sept. 9; Sept. 23), was urging a separate, Soviet-backed state...
Everywhere the Nationalist armies smashed ahead. In the biggest week of Government successes since the undeclared civil war began, all but a few miles of China's strategic railroad lines were free of Communist troops. Between the Communists' Inner Mongolia base at Kalgan, and their lair at Yenan, the fall of Tatung and Fengcheng enabled Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's forces to drive a battering wedge (see map). Another Government army closed in on Kalgan from Jehol...
...wife is a Polish Communist, who is said to have strong influence over him. Liao also speaks excellent English, out of the corner of his mouth. The emergence of Wang and Liao, like the emergence of Li Lisan (TIME, Sept. 9) suggests that changes are occurring in the Yenan hierarchy...