Page "Lin Biao" Paragraph 19

Like many able Red commanders, Lin has never been outside China, speaks and reads no language but Chinese.

Before the age of 30, however, he has already won recognition beyond Red circles.

His articles in the Chinese Reds ' military magazines ... have been republished, studied and criticised in Nanking military journals, and also in Japan and Soviet Russia.

( Within a year of Snow's reporting this, Lin was seriously wounded ).