Word: communists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This pronouncement at the high table of aggressive Communist revolution set Western diplomats to scratching their heads; though most of them found it heartening, some clung to the suspicion that it might be just another cynical appeal to the world's yearning for peace. But it was a measure of the degree to which Khrushchev had turned the world upside down in the last month that the West could even conceive of him as a shield and buckler against the belligerence of Mao Tse-tung's China...
...display of might and by the fireworks, the glittering banquets and the gleaming new buildings that Red China's masters had conjured up to mark their tenth year in power. But behind the gala façade lay a grim reality: the world's biggest and brashest Communist state was stumbling into the most critical year of its existence. Says a Western diplomat stationed in Peking: "The place is a monumental mess...
...every other respect, gelid Liu Shao-chi is the perfect Communist-a mechanical man who comes close to realizing his own dictum: "A party member is required to sacrifice his interests to the party unconditionally." Even the public appearances intended to humanize him invariably take on a grim tone. When a small child cut its hands tending potato vines in a commune, Liu's reaction was hard advice: "Do not be scared by a little blood." And when a Communist bureaucrat, whom he was lecturing on the need for working-class experience, observed, "There are still people who regard...
During Liu's absence in Russia, where he was both bored and homesick, Mao and eleven other comrades founded the Chinese Communist Party. On his return from Russia Liu promptly joined, and for the next 20 years he worked as a Red labor organizer-a job that occasionally landed him in prison. In 1934, when Mao led the Red army in its famed, 6,000-mile Long March from southern Kiangsi to the caves of Yenan in northern China, Organizer Liu went underground, remained behind as a Communist agent in Kuomintang territory...
...have missed both the founding of the Communist Party and the Long March might have put Liu far down the list of party hopefuls. Yet when he finally reached Mao's Yenan headquarters in 1937, he quickly made up for lost time, moved nimbly through the party infighting. As a political commissar, he was assigned to investigate the army commanded by grizzled Peng Teh-huai, the Reds' No. 2 military man and later commander of Chinese "volunteers" in Korea...