Word: mao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although Li was a respected, energetic man, he was left a sorry legacy and had no policy except to sue for peace with the Reds. The Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung had won the war; he could dictate the terms of peace. What Mao wanted was power to put China in the Communist bloc. That he already had. He could proceed along the path of compromise and coalition certain that, with Chiang's passing, the back of anti-Communist resistance in China had been broken...
...Mao's victory made a major change in the political and strategic world picture on the western shore of the Pacific. From Bering Strait to the Gulf of Tonkin Communism was now the major force. The western world merely held sentinel positions in Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia. Indo-China, Malaya and Burma -all three in turmoil-lay beneath the Communist threat...
Friday, Red Boss Mao Tse-tung loosed a tirade against the "sheer hypocrisy" of Chiang's peace message and countered with eight points of his own that demanded, in effect, unconditional surrender of the Kuomintang regime. In North China, battered Tientsin fell on Saturday, costing the government another 60,000 of its dwindling forces...
...Harsh Answer. For two weeks following his New Year's peace proclamation (TIME, Jan. 10), the Gimo had stubbornly withstood mounting pressure from his subordinates to step aside and hasten negotiations with the Reds. Now, as disaster closed about his government, he had Mao's harsh answer. From mid-afternoon until late at night on the day Communist peace terms were broadcast, Chiang summoned his advisers. He called for T. V. Soong to return from the south. Elder Statesman Carson Chang, author of much of the new constitution which the Reds say must be scrapped, hurried up from...
...bring the immediate fruits of peace to China. By war and sabotage they had prevented the resumption of normal life after China's liberation. Now the mere end of fighting'would bring a resumption of trade and a measure of (relative) prosperity. What would happen when Mao Tse-tung no longer needed to tread softly would be another-and a grimmer-story...