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Cried Radio Yenan: Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's troops, "corrupt and rabble-like" (but armed with "large numbers of field guns, trench mortars and American-supplied bazookas") had attacked Communist troops in the Shensi border region. It was "fullscale civil war. . . . Chiang's divisions declared that fighting the Communists comes first and fighting the Japanese comes second...
...Tactic? In six years of undeclared civil war, the armies of China's two factions have had many more serious clashes (in 1941, a battle between the Communist New Fourth Army and Central Government troops lasted nine days, cost more than 10,000 casualties). Then what did Yenan's shrill charges mean at this time...
Perhaps the Communist regime had resolved that there should be no peace and unity with Chungking. More probably, Yenan might be exerting pressure to make Chungking more receptive to Russian plans for East Asia. Those plans, presumably, had been the subject of last month's "suspended" talks between Generalissimo Joseph Stalin and Premier T. V. Soong, which would soon be resumed...
...Against Capitalism. Shortly after the Alliance was organized, Okano made a trip to Moscow. When he returned to Yenan. the Alliance published a manifesto ("Anti-War Call to the Japanese People") expounding its program...
Like the Free Germany Committee, the Alliance conducted highly organized propaganda among the prisoners. Okano had boasted that Japanese prisoners are "rather susceptible to it, provided it is cleverly presented." Some joined the Yenan partisans. Others were allowed to return to the Japanese lines; often they rejoined the partisans, bringing along some friends...