Battle Hymn, p. 199.

Excerpts from Carlson's diary are quoted by Blankfort, Big Yankee, pp. 205-7.

Michael Blankfort, Big Yankee: The Life of Carlson of the Raiders (Boston, 1947), p. 205, citing an undated Smedley letter to the author.

Battle Hymn, p. 198.

Today there is a Kotnis memorial hospital in central Hebei province, as well as many commemorative volumes put out by both sides. A recent example is Jinian Ketihua (Beijing, 1982), which has on p. 129 a photo of Smedley with the mission in Hankou. In English, see Sheng Xiangong, An Indian Freedom Fighter in China (Beijing, 1983).

Jawaharlal Nehru, Bunch of Old Letters (Delhi, 1958), pp. 260 — 62; and the Basu diaries, read in the handwritten original in New Delhi, November, 1977, along with an interview with Dr. B. K. Basu, who was a member of the five-man mission. Further details in Congress Party and Nehru papers, Nehru Library, New Delhi, files for 1937-38.

See, for example, Ross Terrill, Mao (New York, 1980), p. 159.

Interviews: Zhou Libo; Zhou Yang.

The Eighth Route Army headquarters at Xi'an is today a museum.

This is clear from an interview with Nym Wales in June 1975; from her Chinese Communists, pp. 252—54; and her memoir, My China Years (New York, 1984), pp. 264-87.