Word: communist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peiping, the Communist "People's" Conference last week put the finishing licks on its "People's" Republic (TIME, Oct. 3). By unanimous vote, the hand-picked delegates chose Party Boss Mao Tse-tung as the Republic's chairman. Beneath him they put six vice chairmen. Half represented non-Communist window-dressing: Madame Sun Yatsen, fellow-traveling widow of the great Nationalist revolutionary; Marshal Li Chi-shen, leader of dissident Nationalists; and Chang Lan, septuagenarian chief of the Democratic League. The remainder were top-level Communists: Liu Shao-chi, Politburo theoretician second only to Mao; Chu Teh, aging...
...government got a new flag. Against a red ground, it has one large yellow star, symbolizing Communist Party leadership, and four smaller yellow stars, symbolizing workers, farmers, petty bourgeoisie and national capitalists. Chairman Mao proclaimed: "This government is willing to establish diplomatic relations with any foreign government...
...night most of Moscow's foreign diplomatic colony gathered at Spasso House, the home of U.S. Ambassador Alan Kirk. They were watching a movie, when big news arrived. Within hours of Mao Tse-tung's bid, Joseph Stalin's government had granted recognition to the Chinese Communist government. In a brusque note to Canton, Moscow had brushed off the Nationalist as "a provincial government" and withdrawn its recognition...
After much controversy, the Political & Security Committee had decided in which order it would proceed with the business in hand: debate i) Greece's complaint against her Communist neighbors, 2) the Italian colonies, 3) Russia's proposal for a Big Five "peace pact," 4) Palestine, 5) Indonesia and 6) the report of the Security Council. The committee had just disposed of item No. i by passing the Greek issue on to a conciliation commission when it had to make room on its agenda for a new problem. The Chinese had placed a formal charge before the Assembly that...
...debates wore on, the most dramatic issue was one not yet on any U.N. agenda: the cold war between Russia and Yugoslavia. The Yugoslav delegation voted with the Russians against the Chinese Nationalists' proposal; in effect this was a vote for China's new Communist rulers, whom the Yugoslavs hail as comrades, hoping that the Chinese might turn to a Titoism of their own. But on most other issues, the Yugoslavs lined up with the West. Last week, the U.S. announced that it would back the Yugoslavs for a seat on the Security Council against Czechoslovakia. The Yugoslavs...