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...spanking new Peking headquarters, Mao and his henchmen changed their tune. With the rural communes so solidly established that 400 million Chinese peasants now eat in community mess halls, the Red commissars were ready to crack down on city dwellers. To the chorused cheers of 1,063 Congressmen, Liu Chieh-po. vice president of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, triumphantly announced that communes had been established in most of China's cities, had been successfully imposed on the majority of urbanites in the three populous northern provinces of Heilungkiang, Honan and Hopei. All told, boasted Liu...
...able collaborator: Associate Editor Robert McLaughlin, 51. A TIME staffer since 1949, McLaughlin has written in Foreign News since 1957, specializing in the Far East. Besides cover stories on Indonesia's President Sukarno (March 10, 1958), Japan's Princess Michiko (March 23) and Red China's Liu Shao-chi (Oct. 12), McLaughlin wrote the Dalai Lama cover (April 20), which Connery also reported...
Your Oct. 12 article on Red China's Liu Shao-chi is quite interesting, but you fail to present the actual side of progress and improvement. It is the side of approximately 500,000,000 people being helped in conquering hunger...
...Gambit. The men responsible for the big stumble did not suffer. Mao Tse-tung retained the all-powerful chairmanship of the Communist Party, and, though he did step down as chief of state, he was replaced by Organization Man Liu. But there were scapegoats. Three weeks ago, 200 middle-echelon planners and administrators, who were guilty of accurately predicting the failure of the big leap, were dismissed from their posts...
...along with the shakeup in the civilian hierarchy went one in the army. Liu's old opponent, Marshal Peng Teh-huai, was dismissed as Defense Minister, as were two of his top aides, because they had protested the use of troops in labor battalions. Into the chief of staff's post went General Lo Jui-ching (TIME cover, March 5, 1956), bloody-minded former boss of the secret police, who could be depended upon to ferret out any more "incorrect thinking" among the military...