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9 –213 Liu shared Mao strategy: Liu 1996, vol. 1, pp. 241ff; Xie Youtian, p. 222; cf. Wang Ming, pp. 72–6; Titov, vol. 3, pp. 260–1; Huang, J., pp. 128ff. Mao imposed new policy, kept it secret: Luo Rui-qing article, in Luo Diandian 1987, p. 102; Mao 1991, vol. 2, pp. 537–40 (E: MRTP vol. 6, pp. 545–7); Wang Shoudao, pp. 200, 213; orders in ZZWX vol. 11, pp. 760–9 (E: Saich 1996, pp. 841–4).

10 Kang switches allegiance: Shi Zhe 1992, pp. 209–13, 220; Sima Lu 1952, p. 73; Huang, J., pp. 125ff; Byron & Pack, pp. 145–50.

11 –214 Wang Ming return to Yenan: Zhou Guoquan et al., p. 357; ZR vol. 16, pp. 325–8; Sima Lu 1952, p. 123. Peng: Mao “wise leader”: Wang Yan et al., p. 202. Chou conversion to Mao: Chou dated to May 1939 in a speech in Nov. 1943, Jin Chongji et al. 1990, p. 563. Mao only told Moscow in June 1939: Anderson & Chubaryan, pp. 21–2 (extract of CCP Report to Comintern, June); cf. Titov, vol. 3, pp. 297ff.

12 –215 Karmen films Mao: Karmen 1941, pp. 109–15. Lin Biao in Russia: Titov, vol. 3, pp. 358–63, 369. Mao’s brother to Russia: Titov, vol. 3, pp. 363ff. Tse-min on Wang: RGASPI, 514/1/1044, pp. 95–101 (Zhou Den [Mao Tse-min] report, “After Becoming Acquainted with Some Important Party Documents,” 6 Dec. 1939); Titov, vol. 3, p. 375 (Tse-min report, 22 Jan. 1940); cf. Hu Qiaomu, p. 367.

13 Wang Dan-zhi interview, June 1995.

14 On Po and others: RGASPI, 514/1/1044, pp. 13–29; VKP vol. 4, pp. 1129–39 (Tse-min report, 26 Aug. 1939, “On the Errors of Cdes. Po-Ku, Li-De [Braun] and Others in the Leadership of the Party and the Red Army”); Titov, vol. 3, p. 375 (22 Jan. 1940).

15 Chou to Russia: Titov, vol. 3, pp. 386ff; Tikhvinsky 1996, pp. 341ff., 523–5; Dallin & Firsov pp. 111–25 (Chou reports in Moscow, early 1940); RGASPI 514/1/1006, pp. 48–9 (Chou grilled by KGB’s Mordvinov, 4 Mar. 1940). Tse-min on Chou: Titov, vol. 3, pp. 376–7; cf. 368ff. Braun accused: Tse-min report, 26 Aug. 1939, cit.; Braun 1982, p. 263; VKP vol. 4, pp. 1144–51 (Braun report, “On My Errors in Work in China,” 22 Sept. 1939); Titov, vol. 3, pp. 386–7 (Chou report to Comintern, early Jan. 1940).

CHAPTER 21 Most Desired Scenario: Stalin Carves up China with Japan

1 Chen Tu-hsiu poem: in YHCQ, 1994, no. 6, p. 81.

2 –217 Chiang concern: DVP vol. 22, book 1 (1939), p. 649 (to Panyushkin, 25 Aug. 1939); cf. DVP vol. 22, book 2 (1939), pp. 57–8, 64; Mirovitskaya 1999, pp. 63–4. Mao enthusiastic: China Weekly Review, 20 Jan. 1940, pp. 277–8 (Mao to Snow, 26 Sept. 1939); Snow in (London) Daily Herald, 21 Oct. 1939; Snow 1973, pp. 446–8; Mao 1993, pp. 146–51. Hails Russia’s seizure of eastern Finland: Titov, vol. 3, p. 411 (Mao secret directive, 25 June 1940). Compares China to partitioned France: restricted circular in ZZWX vol. 12, p. 542. Demarcation line: Yangtze: Mao instruction on the strategy of development for N4A, 19 Jan. 1940, in ZZWX vol. 12, p. 238 (E: Benton 1999, p. 741); Mao to Politburo, 11 Sept. 1940, in Mao 1993b, vol. 2, p. 205.

3 Dimitrov to Mao, Oct. 1939, in Titarenko 1986, pp. 284–5 (E: Web/Dimitrov); cf. RGASPI, 514/1/1042, p. 8; Nikiforov, pp. 124–5; Titov, vol. 3, pp. 346–8; RGASPI, 514/1/1042, p. 7 (Mordvinov to Dimitrov, 13 Nov. 1939).

4 –218 Mao report, 22 Feb. 1940: Titov, vol. 3, pp. 412–14. Money to Mao: Dimitrov, 23 Feb. 1940; Dallin & Firsov, p. 122; Anderson & Chubaryan, pp. 258–9 (Dimitrov to Voroshilov, 1 Feb. 1940). Radio to Mao: Shi Zhe 1991, pp. 201–3.

5 Takahashi, p. 213.

6 Collaboration with Japanese intelligence: Yin Qi 1996a, pp. 91ff.; Yin Qi 1996b, pp. 198ff.; Iwai, pp. 80ff.; interview with Seiichi Koizumi, 8 Apr. 1999; Yick.

7 “our Party’s tactic”: Sima Lu 1952, pp. 210–11.

8 Ovchinnikov, p. 95 (Vladimirov in Ilyichev to Dimitrov, 6 May 1944).

9 Why Japan left Reds in peace: interview with Prince Mikasa, 2 Mar. 1998. Zhu and Peng plan to attack Japanese, Mao veto: Wang Yan et al., pp. 208–9; Peng 1998, pp. 227–8. Zhu detained: Jin Chongji et al. 1993, pp. 484–92.