Word: yenan
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...Yenan flocked to the airfield to see nervous Mao Tse-tung take off for his unity conference with Chiang Kaishek. U.S. Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley had flown up from Chungking the night before (with two cases of Scotch) to escort the Communist leader. Mao hugged his little daughter, kissed his young wife goodbye with the quiet desperation of a man going to be executed. Then he climbed aboard for the first plane ride of his 52 years, his first meeting with the Generalissimo in two decades of civil strife...
Myth Dispelled. Propaganda could no longer conceal the fact that the Commu nist regime had relied for much of its strength on the prospect of Russian sup port. Despite its claims, Yenan controlled not more than a fifth of China and 70,000,000 Chinese. Even that control, in the sense of mass support, had yet to be impartially assessed. Its regular army did not exceed 450,000 men, and they had only 250,000 rifles...
Explicit in it was Russian backing for the Central Government. Without hope of future help from their Soviet comrades, the Chinese Communists might well be forced to surrender their separate army and administration and take their place as one of several political minorities in a united China. Yenan was struggling against such an outcome, but its leaders could see the handwriting on the wall...
...shek ... I appreciate your telegram. My humble self is most willing to come to Chungking. . . . Chou En-lai is leaving as soon as your plane arrives. Your younger brother is preparing to come in the immediate future. . . ." Chungking reported that U.S. Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley would go to Yenan to escort Mao to Chiang...
Stalin and Molotov argued that the Chinese Communists were a Chinese internal affair and that Russia could not be responsible for Yenan. But they would "use their influence" to help avert civil war. Stalin and Molotov believed that Chiang's retirement would help to pacify China...