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10 Mao hopes Japanese get to Chongqing: Snow 1974, p. 169 (to Snow, 9 Jan. 1965). Peng launches Operation without Mao permission: ZDJC vol. 16, pp. 368–70 also p. 320; Peng 1981, p. 236 (E: Peng, p. 438); Peng 1998, p. 232; Li Rui 1989, p. 223; Van Slyke. Japanese on Operation: CPPCC (Tianjin) vol. 1, pp. 574–5; Japan Self-Defence Agency, pp. 309–10.

11 –221 Chou cables Mao: Zhou 1991, p. 465; Revolutionary Military Museum, pp. 488–91. Mao to punish Peng: Peng 1981, pp. 239–40 (E: Peng, pp. 442–5); Wang Yan et al., p. 287. Chiang trade-off: Chiang, pp. 1605–8. (Many documents on New 4th Army Incident in Benton 1999, pp. 754–818.)

12 –222 Mao turns down offer: Huang Xiurong, p. 437. Panyushkin: Panyushkin, p. 101. Mao cables to Moscow: Titov, vol. 3, pp. 418–22. Second deadline: South Anhui Incident Committee, pp. 81–2. “bully him”: Mao to Chou, 3 Nov. 1940, in Central Archive 1982, pp. 38–9; also p. 75. 7 Nov. cable: in Dallin & Firsov, pp. 128–30;. cf. ibid. pp. 126–8 (Dimitrov to Stalin, 23 Nov. 1940 re Mao); cf. Panyushkin, p. 115, Titov, vol. 3, pp. 441ff.

13 –223 Molotov’s agenda for Berlin: DVP vol. 23, book 2, part 1 (1940–1941), p. 32. Molotov told Hitler: DVP vol. 23, book 2, part 1 (1940–1941), p. 71; Sontag & Beddie, pp. 246–7. “Russian sphere of influence”: Documents on German Foreign Policy, Series D, vol. 11, pp. 512–13 (Ott to Ribbentrop, 11 Nov. 1940); cf. Slavinsky 1995, pp. 67ff. “recognising and accepting”: “Draft Outline for the Adjustment of Japanese-Soviet Diplomatic Relations,” Japanese Foreign Ministry, Archives of the Gaiko Shiryokan, Tokyo, File B100–JR/1, 2.100–23 (E: quoted in Hosoya in Morley 1980, p. 52; cf. ibid., pp. 23–4). Stalin to Chuikov: Chuikov 1981, pp. 56, 58.

14 Chuikov’s other role: Chuikov 1971, p. 278.

15 Order to Mao, 25 Nov.: Dallin & Firsov, pp. 127–8 (dating: ibid., p. 126); cf. Titov, vol. 3, pp. 443–5.

16 Mao reached conclusion: Mao circular, 25 Dec. 1940, in Central Archive 1982, p. 117.

CHAPTER 22 Death Trap for His Own Men

1 Xiang Ying mocking Mao: Kuo Hua-lun, vol. 3, p. 276 (E: Kuo, W., vol. 3, p. 520, cf. p. 526). Xiang group the only N4A south of Yangtze: N4A History Committee, pp. 534ff.; Li Liangzhi, pp. 54–9; cf. Benton 1999, pp. 511ff. Mao told Xiang to decamp on 24 Dec. 1940, in Central Archive 1982, p. 116.

2 –225 Chiang designated North Route: Chiang order, 10 Dec., in South Anhui Incident Committee, p. 94, cf. p. 84. Mao confirmed it: Mao to Xiang, 29 Dec., in Central Archive 1982, p. 124. Mao changes route: Mao to Xiang, 30 Dec., in Central Archive 1982, p. 125. Chiang not told: cable, 3 Jan. 1941, in South Anhui Incident Committee, p. 102. Xiang reply to Chiang which never arrived: Li Liangzhi, p. 211. All contacts to Chiang via Mao: from mid-1940, Huang Xiurong, p. 436; Jin Chongji et al. 1993, p. 487. Nationalists began to “exterminate” Reds on 6 Jan.: ZDZ vol. 37, p. 33. Mao pretended he had not heard from Xiang 6th–9th: Mao to Liu, 9 Jan. 1941, in Central Archive 1982, p. 130.

3 Mao to Chou, 13 Jan. 1941, in Li Liangzhi, p. 211.