Word: mao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the end of the war, Chiang has received more than $3,000,000,000 from the U. S., much of it in actual war material. Still his armies have melted before Mao's Communists. The reason is obvious--incompetent leadership, corruption, and lack of popular support...
...Mao's speedy military success forces him to start fulfilling his promises. To control the heavily populated and industrial South, he has had to shift his attention from rural areas to the immensely more difficult task of governing cities and running trade and industry...
...joint order of the day, Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung and Communist Cornmander in Chief Chu-teh said: "Advance boldly, resolutely, thoroughly; cleanly and completely annihilate all. . . in China who dare to resist...
This week, the Communist radio blared out an ultimatum: Li had just three days to say yes or no to Mao's "peace" terms. Yes or no, Li Tsung-jen's dream of decent peace and a non-Communist China south of the Yangtze was fading fast...
...Mao could not openly reject the plea. "Your message has been received," he wired back. "Our party is very willing to adopt lenient policies." But his heart was not in his terse reply; his heart was with his troops. At week's end, under able Generals Chen Yi and Lin Piao, they were prodding the Nationalists from their last footholds on the Yangtze's north bank. For the first time in the civil war, Red shells whined across the muddy river into the Nationalist southland...