Word: mao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over Yenan, which had hitherto loudly denied any official contact with Moscow, circled Soviet transport planes. To the capital of China's Communists they brought cargoes of medical supplies, two Russian doctors and a tall, youthful Chinese, Mao Yung-fo, second son of Communist Chairman Mao Tse-tung...
...Young Mao's smart black Russian boots and well-cut woolen tunic contrasted sharply with the padded garb of Yenan's comrades. He had spent half of his 24 years in Russia, where he had gone in 1935 during the Communist Long March from Central China to the Northwest. His elder brother is still in the Soviet capital...
...newsmen met young Mao at a Yenan ball. Why had he come home? "These are critical days in Chinese history," was the reply. "I wanted to be by my father's side." For tired, ailing, aging (53) Mao the reunion seemed like a tonic...
Another member of the family, comely, slender Mme. Mao Tse-tung, was planning to leave Yenan for dental treatment in Chungking. Asked if she would see Mme. Chiang Kaishek, Mme. Mao smiled and said: "I hope so." She had last been in Nationalist China eight years ago, when she was still Shanghai Actress Lan Ping, one of her country's brightest cinema stars. She left the films for politics, made her way to Yenan. There, in 1939, she became Chairman Mao's fourth wife...
Democratic Rights. The Political Consultation Conference, set up last fall by Generalissimo Chiang and Communist Chairman Mao Tse-tung to work out China's political unity, thus began its task under favorable auspices. Besides the truce, the P.C.C. heard other important news from the Generalissimo. The Government was taking steps to insure democratic civil rights, promote local self-government, curb the secret police, grant equality to "all legal parties," release all political prisoners except "traitors" and those guilty of "injurious acts against the Republic...