Word: communisme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ultimate Goal. The Cowles view of world opinion rejects the argument that recognition of Communist China would go too far in making Communism respectable in Asia. Said the Des Moines Tribune in January 1951, shortly after the Red Chinese intervened in Korea: "Yes, we know that Communist China is an aggressor, a violator of the United Nations Charter . . . But it is the government of the overwhelming majority of the Chinese land and people. We might as well recognize this fact. And if we want to tell Mao Tse-tung he is a bad boy ... we shall have to recognize...
...about people who are not constantly around him"). Essentially, Mao's world is an imaginary one-a curious melange of Chinese monarchical concepts and Marxist ideology. And behind the benevolent, Buddha-like gaze lie vast personal ambition and ruthless purpose. To a sentimental intellectual who once suggested that "Communism is Love," Mao replied: "No, comrade, Communism is not love; it is a hammer which we use to destroy the enemy...
...major Marxist-Leninist theoretician,'' but his writings are not required reading among Russian party members, and his major pronouncements are dutifully printed without endorsement or criticism. An embarrassed silence greets Mao's current claim that his people's communes will bring true Communism to China in the foreseeable future, since after 41 years the Russians have yet to make such a leap to "true Communism...
...white beard, in vestments of gold and silver brocade, received a golden staff topped with twin serpents-and thus became the 173rd Patriarch of Antioch and of All the East, the post revered by Eastern Orthodoxy as the oldest seat in Christendom.-Behind his election loomed a battle between Communism and the West...
...vigor at diplomacy: the Pope 1) recognized the critical state of the church in Latin America in giving cardinals for the first time to Uruguay and Mexico, 2) stiffened the church's position against the Reds by appointing in embattled Berlin a young cardinal renowned for his anti-Communism (see below), 3) honored Milan's popular Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini by placing his name at the head of the official list of new cardinals, giving him the unofficial title of the new Pope's prima creatura...