Word: yenan
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...Yenan's loess cave dwellings were rapidly emptying. For the second time in a decade, China's Communists were shifting their center of political gravity. In 1934-35 they had staged their famed Long March of 8,500 miles from Central China to the remote Northwest; of 100,000 marchers an exhausted 20,000 survived to set up headquarters at Yenan. Now, more powerful than ever, the Communists were heading north and east to Kalgan...
While not yet proclaimed as the Red capital, Kalgan has become political and military citadel of the Chinese Communists. Its population (130,000) is almost three times as great as Yenan's. It is the Communists' first industrialized area (coal, iron, electric power, trucks, busses, cigarets, liquors, rubber goods, movies). It is also an arsenal. Left behind by the Japanese, after the Russians chased them out, and obligingly let the Chinese Communists in, was an enormous cache of weapons, including 60 tanks...
...Hurley returned to the U.S. two months ago. He was browned off by what he considered to be State Department careerists' action: some of them were sabotaging his White House orders to bolster Chiang Kai-shek's Government, and to effect unity between it and the Yenan Communists. Last week, back in Washington after a rest, Pat Hurley decided on a showdown. He wrote a statement. He wrote his resignation. Then he called on Secretary Byrnes...
Success would give the Communists, long established in landlocked Yenan, an over land link with Russia and an outlet to the sea. It would also block the Central Government's chance to unify China...
...universal, overwhelming desire for peace. Statesmen, generals, common soldiers, peasants, townsmen wanted only to end the fighting-all fighting-and get on with the rebuilding of China's individual and national life. This vast yearning pressed alike upon the Generalissimo in Chungking and upon Mao Tse-tung in Yenan. In it lay the best hope that China would find national security short of all-out civil war, and that the thousands of Americans within the sound of Chinese guns would come safely home...