Word: china
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party members and fellow travelers. Taken on a conducted tour by the Chinese Reds, he was somehow persuaded that formation of the communes was actually "spontaneous and unforeseen by the State Planning Commission." Yet even the establishment of the far milder cooperative farms met with considerable opposition among Red China's peasants. In Kwangtung province alone 118.000 peasants and their families deserted cooperative farms in 1956. Peking itself admits that the establishment of the communes has produced "vacillation" among the "upper-middle peasants." Stalin's forced collectivization of Russian agriculture in the 19305-3 program less radical than...
Already Peking ideologists are predicting that when the communes come into full flower, six years or so from now, China will have achieved true Communism, as Russia has not-thus furthering Chairman Mao's bid for ideological pre-eminence in the Communist world...
...cease-fire terms by ordering the Seventh Fleet to stop escorting supply convoys to Quemoy-the prevailing opinion was that the U.S. firmness had paid off (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). By steadily increasing the quantity of supplies landed on Quemoy, so this reasoning went, the U.S. and Nationalist China had showed Peking that the island could not be subdued by artillery barrage...
Certainly Communist China had not been able to make good on the threat that it hurled at the Quemoy garrison on Aug. 27: "Your water routes to Formosa have been blockaded by us, and you have not the slightest hope of holding the island, being reinforced, or being able to withdraw." If the Reds had not abandoned hope of starving Quemoy out. they presumably would not have given the Nationalists an opportunity to cram supplies into the island unopposed. (By week's end Nationalist convoys had landed an estimated 28.000 tons of supplies on Quemoy-enough to meet minimum...
...huai. whom Chinese Reds delight in calling "the man who beat MacArthur.'' Addressing himself to "my compatriots'' in Formosa, Peng began: "We are all Chinese. Formosa, Quemoy and Matsu are Chinese territories. This is an internal Chinese matter between you and us. not between China and the U.S." Fact is. Peng told the Nationalists, "the day will come when the Americans will abandon you. The clue is already there in the statement made by Dulles on Sept. 30. Placed in such circumstances, do you not feel wary...