Word: yenan
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...week of Nationalist victories in China's civil war. Government forces pressed the Communists hard on nearly all fronts, were rapidly driving a wedge between Yenan and Kalgan, the key Communist bases. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's forces also opened an all-out drive to recapture North China's vital communications network, had already regained control of the important Peiping-Cheng-teh railroad through the seizure of Kupehkow, strategic Great Wall pass...
...years Li Lisan was filed away, like Josip Broz (now Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito) and Boleslaw Rutkowski (now Poland's President Bierut), in Moscow's human archives. But last week Li was back in the inner circles of the Yenan Government. Some thought they recognized his dynamic hand already in reports that Yenan was considering superseding the present loose union of local Communist governments with a strong central regime...
...Leighton Stuart) to work out a plan for a coalition government with the Communists. The Communists agreed to participate on the committee if they were left undisturbed in North China. Since the Communist grip on North China -and on the main railroad arteries-was a major issue between Yenan and Nanking, this condition was not so simple as it seemed...
...Chiang Kai-shek's demand that the Communists "withdraw from areas where they threaten peace and obstruct communications," the Yenan Communist radio retorted: "What Chiang means, in a nutshell, is 'Countrymen, prepare for slaughter; it is all for your own good.'" The Communist answer: a "mobilization" call (for an army of 1,000,000 regulars, 2,000,000 guerrillas) and announcement of a "provisional supreme administration for democratic [Communist] Manchuria...
Marine headquarters refused to make accusations. Communist headquarters at Yenan was less circumspect; it announced that Red units had fought marines at Anping, called the battle a consequence of U.S. interference in China. U.S. authorities noted that the convoy had been taking supplies not to Chinese Nationalists, but to a tripartite (Nationalist-Communist-U.S.) truce team trying to avert open civil war in the Peiping area...