Word: mao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throwing around the name of Nozaka's good friend Mao Tse-tung has been even more effective. With Japan's recovery vitally dependent on China trade, certain businessmen have seen fit to invite Red leaders to Tokyo's swank Industry Club. Osaka manufacturers have formed a Marxist study group and are contributing to party coffers. Out in public, Communist orators shout that China shows Asia's "wave of the future." Party organ Akahata, riding the wave, claims that China trade would gain Japan commercial independence (from the U.S.) and would help overthrow the Yoshida government...
...those Americans who thought Red China could be "neutralized" by friendly treatment, Mao had an answer: "We also oppose the illusion of a third road. Not only in China, but also in the world, without exception, one either leans to the side of imperialism or the side of socialism. Neutrality is a camouflage...
...Mao summed up his position with a familiar Moscow precept, dressed in a Chinese figure of speech: "You have to choose between the alternatives of killing the tiger or being eaten...
...Chinese leader cleared up some points that have been debated in the West. For the bemused "liberals" who have protested that the Chinese Communists were mere harmless "agrarian democrats," Mao had news. He said his regime was and for the immediate future would continue to be a "dictatorship." For those who have insisted that the Chinese Reds got no help from Russia, Mao (who should know) said that the victory of the Red revolution in China would have been impossible without the aid of the U.S.S.R. He said that the "masses" in many countries, including the U.S., had relieved reactionary...
...Molotov, rather than Marshall or Bevin, who had finally educated the West on the subject of Communist danger in Europe. In the same way Mao Tse-tung might educate it about the Communist danger in Asia...