Word: yenan
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...China, where the great stake was the railway system, a solution was proposed by Chungking's Information Minister K. C. Wu: 1) the Communists should withdraw from the railways; 2 ) the Central Government would accept their local administration beyond the right of way, pending a final political solution. Yenan answered: "Until a political settlement is reached, occupation of railways is dangerous...
...could be extricated. Hundreds of miles farther north, many a day's march beyond the scene of Marshal Yen's trouble, in Suiyuan Province, a large force under Governor Fu Tsoyi, commanding general of the Twelfth War Zone, was in pitched battle with Communist forces drawn from Yenan and Hopeh. Government strategists were obviously surprised by the Communist strength, now think that the Communists are trying to break out of Yenan into the friendly valleys of Russian-dominated Outer Mongolia...
Kalgan, crossroad of camel caravans from Central Asia, is the Mongolian gateway through the Great Wall into North China. Occupied by the Chinese Communist Eighth Route Army, Kalgan has become the Communist metropolis (130,000 population), outranking Yenan in size and wealth. It has a cigaret factory, machine shops, a power plant, an iron smelter, railway facilities. It is military headquarters for all Communist operations in Shansi, Hopeh, Chahar and Jehol Provinces and in Manchuria...
Somewhat less elated and carefree were the men who held the fate of nearly a fifth of mankind in their hands. On the eve of the national anniversary they were seated around a banqueting table in Chungking. Guest of honor was Mao Tse-tung, the Communist leader from Yenan, a man with destiny written in his strong face. Opposite him sat one of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's chief negotiators, shrewd General Chang Chih-chung. For 45 seesawing days the two men, backed by their aides, had pitted plan against plan to heal the breach between Communist China...
...expectation of a U.S. invasion north of Shanghai. U.S. forces, they thought, would be dependent on guerrilla aid, and this dependence could be translated into political recognition. When surrender came without an invasion, some Shanghai Communists wanted to seize the city. Just after the Moscow treaty was announced, Yenan headquarters ordered the Shanghai Communists to avoid armed conflict with Chiang's authority...