The Red Guards, backed by the Maoist military representatives stationed in Jack’s office, cajoled Yuan-tsung and Jack into going to the backwater Upper Felicity Village, which was the Red Guards’ final solution to the problem of disposing of the couple. But Yuan-tsung reconnected with Jack’s American brother-in-law, Jay Leyda, who was teaching at York University in Canada. Eventually, with the secret help of a fellow victim Yuan-tsung had met by happenstance on a bus, and despite some letters intercepted by Red Guards, Jack was able to get messages from Leyda. Leyda succeeded in organizing a speech tour for Jack to Canadian and American universities, and informed Zhou Enlai of it. On the prime minister’s personal order, Jack was brought back to Beijing and granted exit visas for the family. After the tour of Chinese cities arranged by Zhou Enlai, Jack, Yuan-tsung, and their son left China in May 1971, two months before Kissinger’s secret visit to China in July.