Word: chou
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...factions from the still troubled Kwangsi Chuang Autonomous Region that borders on North Viet Nam. There, factional strife had drastically curtailed rail shipment of aid to Hanoi. Exasperated officials summoned Red Guard leaders to an acrimonious conference in Peking, where the rebels were interrogated by the leadership, including Premier Chou En-lai and Kang Sheng, the Chinese Communist Party's expert in ideological matters. Excerpts from the transcript...
...Chou: Is it true that your men took away the locomotive of Train...
...Chou: Oh, only once. But once is serious enough. You threatened the driver with a machine gun and took away the locomotive. It was only after I called directly over long-distance telephone and gave up a good night's sleep that you returned it. (Turning to another leader): You took part in the looting of ammunition destined for Viet Nam. Can't you hand over what you have looted? You have seized 11,800 cases of ammunition. That is no small matter. How can you try to deceive us and get away free? How can you tell...
...Guards complains that his faction at Kwangsi University has been under siege for several months with nothing to eat. Chou sneers: How is it that you have nothing to eat? Haven't you seized other people's food stores...
...soft on reformers and "revisionists." Logically, therefore, the Chinese should have given the Russians good marks for learning their lesson. But Peking seized the opportunity to rip Moscow. "This is the most barefaced and typical specimen of fascist power politics by the Soviet scabs," said China's Premier Chou Enlai. As Peking saw it, the whole episode was the result of a plot by the U.S. and the Soviets to divide up the world between themselves. Still, it was indeed an extraordinary experience to find Communist China condemning a country's loss of freedom in stronger terms than...