Word: mao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week over the Yenan radio Mao Tse-tung angrily spurned the Generalissimo's offer. Cried Mao: The Chungking Government is "defeatist . . . obstinate in holding to a one-party dictatorship." Recent parleys, he said, had not "attained the least result." China was still cleft...
Meeting in Yenan. A rush phone call had summoned Yenan's Big Four-Communist Party Secretary Mao Tse-tung, Generals Chou Enlai, Chu Teh and Yeh Chien-ying. They sped to the airport in Mao's private car (a converted ambulance), ran pell-mell across the field to greet their American guest. As he had with the Russians in 1942, 1943 and 1944, Pat Hurley hailed them like long-lost friends...
Riding into the city in Mao's car, Pat Hurley unlimbered some of his best anecdotes. Colonel Barrett translated with idiomatic gusto. As the car forded the shallow Yen River, General Hurley cracked: "It reminds me of my old home in Oklahoma. There you could tell when a school of fish was swimming upriver by the cloud of dust it raised...
...Everywhere on stone walls and cliffsides appears the four-syllable slogan coined by the government's able chief, Mao Tze-tung: "Move your own hands!" Meaning: "He who does not work shall not eat." A Border Region epithet is the term erh-lu-tze - loafer (literally, "she-donkey"). Communists say they once counted 70,000 loafers, that now there are only a few hundred. These diehards must wear a big white erh-lü-tze badge, are fair game for anyone's hoots and jeers. But this year an official thought up a subtler approach...
Symbol of a Nation. More than ever, the symbol of China's will on the eighth Double Seventh was the shaven-headed, tenacious Generalissimo. Even Chiang Kai-shek's bitterest political enemies, the veteran Communist chiefs Mao Tse-tung and Chou Enlai, acknowledged his undisputed leadership in resistance. In the 17 years since he set out to centralize and nationalize China, Chiang Kai-shek had concentrated tremendous power in his own hands. But he could never have held that power if he had not used it for China, and against Japan. In him a leader's will...