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“augment strength”:
FRUS
, 1945, vol. 7, p. 601.
“It appears at present”:
Ibid., p. 602.
“Dissident elements”:
Ibid., pp. 603–604.
“heavy pressure”:
Ibid., pp. 611–12.
“Impasse seems to have reached”:
Ibid., p. 613.
“looting trains”:
Ibid., p. 618.
“well-entrenched”:
Ibid., p. 687.
“the darkest aspect”:
Ibid., p. 691.
“a complete victory”:
Ibid., p. 664.
“completely unprepared”:
Ibid., p. 652.
this corrosive problem:
Ibid., p. 653.
“a momentous bearing”:
FRUS,
1945, vol. 7, p. 629.
“move resolutely”:
Ibid., p. 632.
“Drumright’s stance”:
Davies,
Dragon,
p. 418.
“small likelihood”:
FRUS,
1945, vol. 7, p. 642.
“We have to recognize”:
Life,
Nov. 19, 1945.
“It is somewhat confusing”:
Cited in Utley, p. 143.
“The political structure”:
New York Times,
Feb. 25, 1945.
“one of the pinnacles”:
Time,
Sept. 3, 1945.
“customary panegyrics”:
White,
In Search,
p. 241.
“Most Americans”:
Life,
Nov. 19, 1945.
“deserted an ally”:
FRUS,
1945, vol. 7, p. 673.
“considered opinion”:
Ibid., p. 680.
“it’s impossible for me”:
Ibid., p. 684.
“perhaps the wise course”:
Ibid., p. 686.
“the symptoms”:
James Forrestal,
The Forrestal Diaries,
ed. Walter Millis (New York: Viking, 1951), p. 111.
“the professional foreign service men”:
New York Times,
Nov. 29, 1945.
“give some assurance”:
New York Times,
Nov. 28, 1945.
“an uproar”:
Melby, p. 39.
“a victory for American people”:
Radio Yenan, Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), Nov. 28, 1945.
“Pat Hurley came out”:
Time,
Dec. 17, 1945.
he called George Marshall:
John Robinson Beal,
Marshall in China
(Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970), pp. 1–2.
“the cry of the cranes”:
Gillin and Myers, p. 126.
“speak out”:
Sheng, p. 113.
Stalin’s communication with Mao:
Goncharov et al., p. 15.
Stalin told the Communists:
Sheng, p. 114.
posters criticizing the KMT disappeared:
Gillin and Myers, p. 127.
he expressed the hope:
Ibid., p. 135.
“middle and small cities”:
Sheng, p. 114.
“neutralize the United States”:
Ibid.
“a thunderous greeting”:
Taylor, p. 329.
“glorious victory”:
Ibid.
“indicate more positive attitude”:
FRUS,
1945, vol. 7, pp. 694–95.
“more serious threats”:
Ibid., p. 700.
“Everybody is waiting”:
Melby, p. 51.
“He is a modest man”:
Beal, p. 68.
“the finest soldier”:
Forrest C. Pogue,
George C. Marshall: Statesman,
1945–1949, vol. 4 (New York: Viking Press, 1987), p. 27.
“the growing impression”:
Melby, p. 69.
“hitting him on the back”:
Caughey, p. 62.
“The murder and brutality”:
Melby, p. 44.
Vincent argued forcefully:
May, pp. 139–41.
“failed to make reasonable concessions”:
FRUS,
1945, vol. 7, p. 768.
“he was not to be abandoned”:
Feis, p. 419.
two percent chance of success:
Henry Byroade, “Oral History Interview with Henry Byroade,” Harry S. Truman Library; online at
trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/byroade.htm
.
“You have … been given”:
Pogue, p. 29.
“I told General Marshall”:
Wedemeyer, p. 363.
“I am going to accomplish”:
Ibid.
“eliminating autonomous armies”:
Lyman P. Van Slyke, ed.,
Marshall’s Mission to China: The Report and Appended Document,
vol. 1 (Arlington, VA: University Publications of America, 1976), p. 6.
“to establish a puppet regime”:
Ibid., p. 11.
“barrier of fear”:
Van Slyke,
Marshall’s Mission,
p. 7.
“All shades and grades”:
Melby, p. 53.
Stalin advised the Chinese Communists:
Sheng, p. 123.
“My estimate”:
FRUS,
1946, vol. 9, p. 18.
“an expansionist force”:
Ibid., pp. 116–18.
“The position of the Communists”:
Ibid., pp. 41–42.
they would temporize on that demand:
Sheng, pp. 121–22.
The government would be allowed:
FRUS,
1946, vol. 9, pp. 73–104.
“hastening to take over”:
Ibid., p. 104.
“we can’t agree to this one”:
Ibid.
“generously agreed to the issuance”:
Ibid., p. 105.
“I’ve tried to tell”:
Ibid., p. 40.
“It marks the beginning”:
Liberation Daily,
monitored by FBIS, Jan. 12, 1946.
“the democracy to be initiated”:
FRUS,
1946, vol. 9, pp. 151–52.
convey an anecdote:
Ibid., p. 152.
“The distances are great”:
Ibid., p. 351.
“We literally had a team”:
Byroade, oral history.
“impossible situation”:
FRUS,
1946, vol. 9, p. 347.
“It is obvious”:
Ibid., pp. 362–63.
“greatly exaggerating”:
Ibid., p. 373.
“weathered mud huts”:
New York Times,
Jan. 21, 1946.
“The fighting did stop”:
Byroade, oral history.
“no longer any doubt”:
New York Times,
Feb. 2, 1946.
“Affairs are progressing”:
A full set of carbon copies of Marshall’s letters to Truman are in NARA, Joint Chiefs of Staff, records of Admiral Leahy, RG38, Entry 117, Box 2.
“Thousands stormed the field”:
Radio Yenan, monitored by FBIS, Mar. 6, 1945.
“I was frank to an extreme”:
NARA, Leahy records, RG38, Entry 117, Box 2.
“an amazing task”:
Ibid.
“We want unification”:
Sheng, p. 126.
“I shudder”:
Gillin and Myers, p. 231.
“undeniably outstanding”:
Sheng, p. 126.
“terminating the hostilities”:
New York Times,
Mar. 17, 1946.
“It was very remarkable”:
Ibid.
“The outlook is not promising”:
NARA, Leahy records, RG38, entry 117, box 2.
“dangerous military position”:
Ibid.
“open antagonism”:
NARA, Leahy records, RG 218, entry 117, box 2.
“utter chaos”:
Ibid.
the CC clique:
Taylor, p. 25.
“the most striking change”:
Fairbank, p. 131.
“Every night”:
Melby, p. 83.
“Now that China has paid”:
New York Times,
Feb. 15, 1946.
“sharp criticism of Russian policy”:
New York Times,
Feb. 20, 1946.
carried slogans:
New York Times,
Feb. 21, 1946.
“littered with crates”:
Gillin and Myers, p. 195.
When the train reached the station:
Ibid., p. 223.
“the question of economic cooperation”:
Ibid., p. 222.
use the word “fascist”:
FRUS,
1946, vol. 9, pp. 513–16.
“Our party’s policy”:
Sheng, pp. 133–34.
“the U.S. Forces Headquarters”:
Ibid., p. 136.
“All that has happened”:
Sheng, p. 127.
“spirit of cooperation”:
FRUS,
1946, vol. 9, p. 157.
vituperative attack on him:
Ibid., p. 167.
persuasive, even impassioned rejoinder:
Ibid., pp. 173–75.
irreconcilables were motivated:
Ibid., pp. 160–61.
reported to Washington:
Ibid., pp. 1380, 1400.
“a complete contrast”:
FRUS,
1946, vol. 10, p. 77.
“a decisive victory”:
New York Times,
Mar. 21, 1946.
twenty thousand Communist troops attacked:
New York Times,
Apr. 30, 1946.
“shameful”:
New York Times,
Apr. 20, 1946.
proposal for a new ceasefire:
FRUS,
1946, vol. 9, pp. 791–93.
“excessive demands”:
Ibid.
“tantamount to supporting”:
Ibid.
report from Weixian:
Radio Yenan, monitored by FBIS, February 10, 1946.
“American planes and officers”:
Ibid., Apr. 2, 1946.
“bring disaster”:
Ibid., Apr. 21, 1946.
“an undeniable fact”:
Ibid., May 20, 1946.
“Never in the past”:
Ibid, June 7, 1946.
“the aggravation”:
Pogue, p. 125.
“vicious Communist propaganda”:
Ibid., p. 127.
Communist forces ambushed:
Van Slyke,
Marshall’s Mission,
vol. 1, pp. 444–50.
When the police came:
Mei Zhi,
F: Hu Feng’s Prison Years,
ed. and trans. Gregor Benton (London: Verso, 2013), p. 18.
“counterrevolutionaries are trash”:
Ibid., back cover.
the “leniency” of the party:
Ibid., pp. 56–60.
“we are all committed”:
Ibid., p. 11.
Ma was ridiculed:
Peng, p. 190.
“The basis of the interrogation”:
Wang Ruowang,
The Hunger Trilogy,
trans. Kyna Rubin (Armonk: NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1991), p. 71.
He went straight up the stairs:
Xu Zhucheng,
Xu Zhucheng Huiyi Lu
[Memoirs of Xu Zhucheng] (Beijing: Sanlian Shudian [Sanlian Bookstore], 1998), p. 415.
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Mao Zedong, “Farewell, Leighton Stuart,” in
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