Word: communist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Mao did was to explode the hope that the Western democracies could do business with Communist China and thus gradually wean its Red masters away from allegiance to world communism. Mao announced, in effect, that Titoism was not for him. Said he: "We belong to the anti-imperialist front headed by the U.S.S.R., and we can only look for genuine friendly aid from that front and not from the imperialist front...
...word for those Westerners who believed that Communist China would come hat in hand to Washington and London in search of loans; his word was "naive." He predicted that the West would try to lend his government money "because Western capitalists want to make money and bankers need interest to relieve their own crises...
...statement was just about all the world needed to know about the past, present and future attitudes of the Chinese Communist Party. It wiped out 15 years of "liberal" cant about the tame Chinese Communists. Probably it would effectively silence the British and U.S. Shanghai businessmen who were clamoring to their governments to establish diplomatic relations with the Reds. Mr. Acheson had his answer...
...Molotov, rather than Marshall or Bevin, who had finally educated the West on the subject of Communist danger in Europe. In the same way Mao Tse-tung might educate it about the Communist danger in Asia...
...weeks of his life, the burly Bulgarian commanded the free world's admiration. In 1933, two tyrannies faced each other in a Berlin courtroom - Naziism represented by a fat bully, Hermann Göring, Communism by an obscure, curly-maned agitator named Georgi Dimitrov. In this instance, the Communist was the hero, accused of complicity in the setting of the Reichstag fire which, by then, everyone suspected Hermann Göring had set himself. Dimitrov, acting as his own attorney, alone in a hostile courtroom and a hostile country, fought Göring with courage. "I am not here...