Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c14.s3.t10.4

v2.c14.s3.t10.4

and throughout India, an aid-China movement developed. There were student speeches and demonstrations, there were performances organised by art and literary groups and even the urban people raised donations to aid China. On November 27, 1937, at the suggestion of Agnes Smedley, Zhu De, who was then serving as the Commander-in-Chief of the Eighth Route Army, a people’s army led by the CCP during the anti-Japanese war, wrote a letter to the Indian national leader Pt Jawaharlal Nehru requesting him to send medical supplies and doctors to help the Chinese in this hour of distress.