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Prospect from Yenan. The Communists did not want a resumption of civil war. They had even less chance than the Government of winning an outright victory. Besides, they were sitting pretty; they blocked recovery, and the Government got the blame for the result. If they were admitted to the Government, so much the better; they could increase their military power and political patronage...
This "peaceful" position won the Communists considerable support among a people heartily sick of war. On the other hand, the Communists had lost some strength in liberal and intellectual groups which formerly made a sharp distinction between Chinese Reds and Russian Reds. In bone-poor Yenan the Communist record had been one of progressive reform. But from Shantung and other recently occupied areas, Chinese liberals heard and many believed verifiable tales that were remarkably like the stories of Red oppression in eastern Europe. But this loss of prestige among intellectuals was much less important to the Communists than retention...
...traveled the country far & wide, stayed aloof from China's politics, met and endeared himself to Chinese of every stripe. More important, he came to be well known and trusted by Chiang Kaishek, Madame Chiang, Premier T. V. Soong and Communist negotiator Chou En-lai (some of Communist Yenan's leaders are Yenching graduates...
...conciliation. He proposed that Marshall be empowered to act as supreme arbiter in all Communist-Nationalist disputes. Chou hedged: "We've trusted Marshall, but to trust him and to give him arbitrary power are two different things." In Marshall's personal plane Chou took the proposal to Yenan where Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung was deciding whether it is to be peace or war for China...
According to Yenan, the Communists were sending back to Government lines the bodies of Government troops in coffins "as an expression of a sincere desire for peace and unity." This week Generalissimo Chiang made another gesture of compromise; he invited General Chou and other leaders to tea and a discussion of their differences...