Red Star over China (92 page)

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An Australian confidant of both Chiang Kai-shek and Chang Hsueh-liang, W. H. Donald was Nanking's first envoy to Sian (sent at Mme. Chiang's insistence).

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This telegram was sent from Sianfu on December 19, addressed to Frazer, London
Times
correspondent in Shanghai, with the request that it be given to other correspondents. Nanking censors suppressed it. A copy was also given to Mr. Donald, who is the source of this quotation.

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See
New China,
a Communist publication (Yenan), March 15, 1937.

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For full text of these important resolutions see
The China Year Book
(Shanghai, 1938).

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New land-rent policies were, however, to penalize the landlords, and in practice the bias in “democratic” political organizations favored the poor peasants. At no time, not even in the early months of the brief lived two-party cooperation, did the Communists cease propagandizing for their cause or repudiate their ultimate Marxist program.

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The essence of Japan's proposals was to make of China a kind of satellite partner in the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo alliance.

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V. I. Lenin,
“Left-Wing” Communism: An Infantile Disorder
(London, 1934).

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Mao Tse-tung
et al.

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Red China: President Mao Tse-tung Reports …

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Londen, 1929.

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Red China: President Mao Tse-tung Reports
…, p. 11.

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Condensed from
RSOC
(Modern Library edition, 1944).

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See Edgar Snow,
The Battle for Asia
(New York, 1941), for an account of the reorganization of the Red Army and growth of partisan warfare from 1937 to 1941.

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New York, March 31 and April 14, 1944.

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For a vivid and almost painfully realistic eyewitness account of these sufferings of growth in the midst of war, see Agnes Smedley's powerful book,
Battle Hymn of China.

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Not until late in 1944 did Chiang Kai-shek grant permission for an American observer team to be stationed in Yenan, where they were welcomed, although they brought no military or economic assistance.

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“Present” in the above text meant 1936, when these notes were compiled for but not used in
RSOC.
It may be of academic interest to add that my guess of “30,000 to 50,000” regulars, with no more than 30,000 rifles, was close to the 40,000 Communist “effectives” recognized and paid by the National Government of Nanking, as the Eighth Route Army, when the old Red Army was incorporated into the National Army of China after the KMT-CP agreement, reached after the Sian Incident.

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The Second All-China Soviet Congress was held in Juichin, Kiangsi, in January, 1934. See Mao Tse-tung,
Red China: President Mao Tse-tung Reports
...

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The Other Side of the River,
pp. 331ff.

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On a recent (1973) visit to China I was told by Mme. Teng Ying Ch'ao that my husband's memory of this incident differed from her own: they had traveled together, and she knew he would have helped her had it been necessary; but her recollection was that it had not been.—Lois Wheeler Snow