Word: mao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists are the government of China. Starting from that fact, we have no moral or pragmatic basis for not recognizing them. Mao-tze Tung's men are neither the innocent agrarian reformers that some of their supporters would make them nor as much a tool of Moscow as the conservative press claims. Their leaders are Moscow-trained, but there are four factors which make their ties to Russia looser than those of the eastern European "satellites...
...most urgent problem facing China's Reds is industrialization, for which they need machines and technical skill. Russia will be willing to provide these, whether it can spare them or not, and if the United States cuts off all communication with China, Mao will become completely dependent on, and subservient to Moscow...
...built schools. One day last week a group of dockyard laborers' children gave an evening entertainment to raise funds for the Communist armies. A girl teacher with pigtails and hornrimmed glasses exhorted her audience shrilly: ". . . A bright new future is ours . . . let's give cheers to Chairman Mao and the new People's Republic . . ." When the applause was over, a mixed glee club took over with propaganda-packed songs: Sending off Sweethearts to the Front, Chiang's Reign Is All a Mess, and The Glorious New Five-Starred National Flag...
...streets teem with Russian soldiers. Dairen Chinese are now forbidden to use the old Chinese term mao-tse (literally: hairy one) when referring to Russians; Russians must be called lao-ta (literally: elder brother...
...members publicly announced that they had switched allegiance to the Communists, called on other Chinese diplomats to join them against "warmongers." Radio Peiping was delighted, but the French government was not. It withdrew diplomatic recognition from the renegade nine, and the Nationalist government dispatched a smiling troubleshooter named Tuan Mao-Ian from the London embassy to take charge of the Paris situation...