Word: yenan
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Mission to Yenan. Last October General Hurley sat in on go-between talks in Chungking. Then in November he boarded a U.S. Army C-47, flew north to Yenan, capital of Communist China, prepared to loose his legendary diplomatic charm...
...Hurley sent ahead no advance notices. As his transport circled Yenan's airport, the hinterland city of 40,000 went into a dither. First to greet the visitor was U.S. Army Observer Colonel David Dean Barrett, an old China hand, who was dressed in a faded, padded blue-cotton greatcoat over his woolen olive drab. General Hurley wore correct two-star uniform, complete with three rows of campaign ribbons, Mexican Aztec Eagle, White Eagle of Yugoslavia, D.S.C. (for gallantry in World War I) and U.S. Distinguished Service Medal with oakleaf cluster. Cracked the Colonel: "General, you have...
Meeting in Yenan. A rush phone call had summoned Yenan's Big Four-Communist Party Secretary Mao Tse-tung, Generals Chou Enlai, Chu Teh and Yeh Chien-ying. They sped to the airport in Mao's private car (a converted ambulance), ran pell-mell across the field to greet their American guest. As he had with the Russians in 1942, 1943 and 1944, Pat Hurley hailed them like long-lost friends...
...been holding off the Japanese invaders from without. At the same time she had held off the Communists from within. To win against overwhelming Japanese odds, she had retreated from Peiping, from Shanghai, from Nanking, from Canton. To seal off the Communists, she had maintained a blockade against Yenan. Time, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had reasoned, would give his Allies a chance to come to China's aid. So he had traded space for time. But after seven years of unflagging resistance, tired China was running short of space as well as time. At that moment Japan struck again...
...Problem. It would not be an easy fight. One of the main problems confronting T.V. was a settlement of China's civil war. Last week a truce between the Chungking Government and Communist Yenan seemed in the making. Communist envoy Chou En-lai had delivered Yenan's latest demand for a coalition government. Chiang Kai-shek still shook his head; he was "still opposed, as the head of any independent nation must be, to an armed state within a state. But he had made a counteroffer. Its details not disclosed, Chungking said authoritatively that the Generalissimo...