Word: mao
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Their professors petitioned Chiang Kaishek and Mao Tse-tung to settle the domestic quarrel. Last month, in defiance of an official ban, the students paraded in the streets. Soldiers fired rifle volleys in the air to disperse them. The students called a strike. Uniformed rowdies threw hand grenades that killed three students and one professor...
Postman Snow was burned up to be excluded "on the laconic grounds that I am unacceptable. ... It is a vicious violation of ... freedom of the press." Edgar Snow had visited Mao Tse-tung and his Yenan Communists in 1936, had perhaps done more than any other man to sell their case to the U.S. His Red Star Over China has sold 52,000 copies. In The Pattern of Soviet Power, published in July, he argued for Big Three pressure to squeeze China's two factions into one, mostly by putting the squeeze on Chiang...
...effect, the "small war" was a Clausewitzian extension of the political talks begun in August by Communist Chairman Mao Tse-tung and Generalissimo Chiang's negotiators, and recessed last month. The suspended but by no means abandoned negotiations and the military maneuverings were inextricably intermixed. The more either side could gain in the field, the less would be left to negotiation. The more they finally settled by negotiation, the less they would have to fight about...
...China shared a universal, overwhelming desire for peace. Statesmen, generals, common soldiers, peasants, townsmen wanted only to end the fighting-all fighting-and get on with the rebuilding of China's individual and national life. This vast yearning pressed alike upon the Generalissimo in Chungking and upon Mao Tse-tung in Yenan. In it lay the best hope that China would find national security short of all-out civil war, and that the thousands of Americans within the sound of Chinese guns would come safely home...
Chiang had the U.S. emphatically behind him, backing, building, buttressing. Now, if ever, Mao had to agree-or fight. Would he come back to Chungking and try again? Last week Washington unexpectedly announced that dynamic Ambassador Hurley, who had brought Mao and Chiang together once, would soon return to China...