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- 1 2 3 "Charles C. Stelle, 53, Is Dead". The New York Times . 12 June 1964.
- ↑ Carolle J. Carter, Mission to Yenan: American Liaison with the Chinese Communists 1944-1947 (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1997).
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