Word: mao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...library of Nanking's Defense Ministry last week Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek held an earnest council of war. Captured Communist war plans helped the Gerieralissimo to make his points. He read aloud Communist Chieftain Mao Tse-tung's own outline for the offensive in Central China, quoted from the latest tactical instructions for Communist field commanders. But the intentions and capabilities of China's Red Army were clear enough without captured Communist war plans. Last week that Red Army possessed the military initiative in China, and appeared to be winning its war of attrition and disintegration...
...directive before the Communists withdrew: "To keep our troops fit... confiscate anything. . . . For firewood we shall use doors, windows, furniture. . . . Cooking vessels must be carried away. What can't be destroyed must be buried. . . . We must sacrifice for our sacred land of democracy and our president, Mao Tse-tung...
...retreating Chinese Communists, leaving behind their legendary capital, Yenan, filtered northward to other centers of Red strength. Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist troops, commanded by stocky, dependable General Hu Tsung-nan, marched in, took down the huge poster of Communist Chieftain Mao Tse-tung flapping by the south gate, raised the twelve-rayed sun flag of the Government. After ten years, Yenan ("Permanent Peace") had fallen...
...China, which, in the words of Anna Louise Strong, has "an area almost equal to that part of the United States east of the Mississippi River." As Anna Louise left Yenan this week, after a sympathetic stint of several months, she had "the privilege of a final talk with Mao Tse-tung...
Gravely Comrade Mao commented: "The atomic bomb is finished. Provocateurs all over the entire world are talking about atomic warfare, and only childish people believe...