Word: mao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victory in China changed the political and strategic map of the world; therefore, it required far-reaching policy decisions by the U.S. Last February Secretary of State Dean Acheson postponed these decisions by saying that he would "wait until the dust settles." Last week China's Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung settled the dust; he made an air-clearing statement that disclosed the U.S. already standing at a crossroads which the State Department had hoped it would not reach until the weather got cooler, say in October...
...What Mao did was to explode the hope that the Western democracies could do business with Communist China and thus gradually wean its Red masters away from allegiance to world communism. Mao announced, in effect, that Titoism was not for him. Said he: "We belong to the anti-imperialist front headed by the U.S.S.R., and we can only look for genuine friendly aid from that front and not from the imperialist front...
...Mao had a word for those Westerners who believed that Communist China would come hat in hand to Washington and London in search of loans; his word was "naive." He predicted that the West would try to lend his government money "because Western capitalists want to make money and bankers need interest to relieve their own crises...
Like thousands of his fellow citizens, Editor Gould had fallen for the line that China's Communists were really "agrarian democrats" without binding ties to Moscow. Only last month he voiced a tentative welcome to Mao Tse-tung's Communist Liberation Army as it took over Shanghai. Wrote Gould in his breezy Post: "Shanghai is essentially non-political . . . What it hopes is that a true 'liberation' has now come." It hadn't. Gould found the city's new bosses as hostile to a free press as any other Communists would...
...Democracy" dictated for China by Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung got under way in Peiping. To the Red capital from Hong Kong and elsewhere came a motley group of anti-Kuomintang fellow travelers. The Communist masters dubbed them "democratic personages," decked them in cool blue summer uniforms, then directed them to a preparatory conference for a "people's congress" and "coalition government." Best guess as to the Red timetable: by late August the "New Democracy" would be ready for formal launching and a bid for the world's diplomatic recognition...