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...CHINESE LOOKING GLASS by Dennis Bloodworth. 432 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
Near the end of this remarkable guided tour of the Chinese mind, the author observes that Peking has become the proper subject "not of the political mathematician but of the sympathetic psychologist." As just the sort of observer he calls for, Bloodworth, who was the Far Eastern correspondent of the London Observer for twelve years, ranges deftly and wittily through Chinese history and literary legend to find the ideas that shape Communist behavior today: the ancient maxims for guerrilla warfare expounded by the 4th century B.C. strategist Sun Wu ("Do not fight a static war, and do not besiege cities...
Ideologically, too, there are tensions between Peking and Moscow. Chinese Reds privately consider Khrushchev a waverer whose understanding of Marxism-Leninism leaves much to be desired. "The Russians are always blundering," one Chinese Communist loftily told British Journalist Dennis Bloodworth. "Weak Soviet policy was responsible for the Hungarian revolution and the trouble in Poland." Not having been afraid of differing from Stalin, Mao has never hesitated to differ from the Johnny-come-latelys now in authority in Moscow. The Russians officially proclaim Mao to be "a major Marxist-Leninist theoretician,'' but his writings are not required reading among...
...paper's five trustees decide to sell? First, said Publisher Clarence Bloodworth Hanson, 47, nephew of the late publisher, because the tightly knit team of trustees had been weakened only the week before by the retirement of James E. ("Chap") Chappell, 70, as president and editor. "That made us think of when others might have to step out," explained Hanson. Moreover, he said, the offer came to $8,804.70 for each share of News stock-an immense temptation when weighed against "so ephemeral and risky a business as the newspaper business...
...conspiracy", in which he tear-wringingly described how three of God's faithful were victimized by Conspirator Nebuchadnezzar and cast into a fiery furnace, but how God delivered them from their persecuting flames. (Pastor Norris speaks often of a Catholic conspiracy against him). Ominously one Lloyd P. Bloodworth, Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, rumbled fervent amens from the front...