Word: yenan
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...could not fathom General Chou's insistence that the Communists needed more time to reorganize their army. Then he got a flash. Would it speed things up if U.S. officers taught the Communists the fundamentals of modern military staff work? General Chou leaped at the suggestion, hurried to Yenan and hurried back with approval. What had held the Communists back was the fear of fumbling and losing face in the process of streamlining their unwieldy forces...
...complete. To heal other sore spots in Shansi, Honan and Hupeh provinces, tireless U.S. Peacemaker George Marshall toured North China, working in the difficult lower political levels to win practical realization of the military truce he and China's top leaders had arranged. Amid his stops was isolated Yenan, capital of Chinese Communism. There he remained overnight, caught cold watching an elaborate performance of drum dancers and folk singers in an icy auditorium, had a long talk with No. 1 Communist Mao Tse-tung. It was a good bet that Manchuria was mentioned more than once...
...newsmen met young Mao at a Yenan ball. Why had he come home? "These are critical days in Chinese history," was the reply. "I wanted to be by my father's side." For tired, ailing, aging (53) Mao the reunion seemed like a tonic...
Another member of the family, comely, slender Mme. Mao Tse-tung, was planning to leave Yenan for dental treatment in Chungking. Asked if she would see Mme. Chiang Kaishek, Mme. Mao smiled and said: "I hope so." She had last been in Nationalist China eight years ago, when she was still Shanghai Actress Lan Ping, one of her country's brightest cinema stars. She left the films for politics, made her way to Yenan. There, in 1939, she became Chairman Mao's fourth wife...
Kalgan has replaced Yenan as the center of Communist China. TIME Correspondent William Gray examined Kalgan, cabled...