徐海东一生中,接待过不少记者,斯诺是他最难忘的一个人。 1936年6月,中国工农红军经过长征胜利到达陕北,美国记者埃德加·斯诺怀着“探寻红色中国”的愿望,经西安秘密地来到陕北苏区。他访问了毛泽东,访问了许多红军将领。在他写的《西行漫记》中,是这样描绘和徐海东会面的: 一天早晨我到彭德怀的司令部去,发现他有好几个部下在那里,正好开完会。他们请我进去,开了一只西瓜。我们围桌而坐,淘气地在炕上吐起瓜子来。我注意到有一个我以前没见过的年轻指挥员。彭德怀看见我瞧着他,便开玩笑说, Xu Haidong's life, received a lot of reporters, Snow is his most memorable one. In June 1936, the Red Army of China's workers and peasants arrived in northern Shaanxi through the victory of the Long March. The U.S. journalist Edgar Snow, secretly came to the Soviet area of ​​northern Shaanxi with the desire of “seeking a red China”. He visited Mao Zedong and visited many Red Army generals. In his “Westerns of the West” he portrayed meeting with Xu Haidong: I went to the headquarters of Peng Dehuai one morning and found several of his ministers there and was just finished. They invited me in and started a watermelon. We sit around the table, naughty spit melon seeds on the kang. I noticed a young commander I had not seen before. Peng Dehuai saw me looking at him, then joked,