Word: mao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those of us who have fought for power and those who have had it handed to them on a platter by the Red army. If you have fought, you have different ideas and feelings about your rights. I think the Soviets will have to face this same problem with Mao Tse-tung in China, and perhaps with Markos in Greece...
...best and virtually only source on Mao's early life is Edgar Snow's Red Star Over China (Modern Library Series, Random House). Snow spent many nights listening to Mao's life story. TIME bases its account of Mao's childhood largely on Snow's interview...
...Charming Earth. Mao Tse-tung will have to chop off many a Chinese head in trying to rule China, probably the biggest task ever taken on by Communism. As he has put it, "A revolution is no invitation to a banquet...
...Chinese people have borne, driven off or absorbed, many a conqueror-the Huns and Mongols, the Tartars and Manchus. But the conqueror who, in the name of a grandiose world conspiracy, prepared to take over China last week could rival all of these. Mao Tse-tung knew that. Once, while flying over a civil war battlefield on which his men fought blindly for what they thought was the end of misery, Mao had written a poem. Excerpt...
...Mao was a man of feeling, all right, but as tough and tyrannical as any emperor who had preceded him in the rule of his great and long-suffering land...