Word: mao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paul Hoffman, Walter Reuther and Douglas MacArthur; the U.S.S.R.'s Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Georgy Malenkov, Nikoli Bulganin and Lavrenty Beria; Britain's Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin and Winston Churchill; France's Jacques Duclos and Charles de Gaulle; Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, China's Mao Tse-tung, Spain's Francisco Franco, Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, India's Jawaharlal Nehru, Israel's Chaim Weizmann, Jordan's King Abdullah, South Africa's Jan Christian Smuts, Argentina's Juan Perón, and Pope Pius...
...movers and shakers, in the narrow sense of power. But they are not the men who rule the world . . ." Lerner, perhaps confusing influence with power, made his own list of the 25 who "really rule the world . . . the political, intellectual, and moral rulers . . .": Stalin, Churchill, Nehru, Pope Pius, Weizmann, Mao Tse-tung, Tito; and Physicist Albert Einstein, Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, Historian Arnold Toynbee, Philosophers John Dewey and Bertrand Russell; Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, Artist Pablo Picasso, Writers Bernard Shaw, T. S. Eliot, Andre Gide, Jean-Paul Scrtre and William Faulkner; Theologians Jacques Maritain, Karl Barth, Martin Buber...
This article informed us that "Chiang has received more than three billion dollars from the U.S., much of it in actual war material. Still his armies have melted before Mao's Communists. The reason is obvious incompetent leadership, corruption, and lack of popular support." I suggest that the moral forces that overcame Chiang were very real indeed; but methinks these "moral forces" have taken up more than a little space on the Kremlin-to-China trade route...
Schwartz sketched the background of the Chinese Communist movement and paralleled the political techniques of Communist leader Mao Tze Tung to those of Lenin. Communism's chief attraction to the Chinese, he said, is its action and melodramatic methods as compared to the inefficient bumbling of Chiang Kai Shek's Kuomintang government...
...with any plans for Japan's economic future was that most of the area with which she needs to trade was either held or threatened by the Communists. The Communists saw the dilemma. Japan's Communist boss, plump little Sanzo Nozaka, good friend of China's Mao Tsetung, found that Marxism has little ideological appeal for his countrymen; but when he promised them more food, more work, more trade, he found that even Japanese businessmen would listen. Last week, viewing Mao Tsetung's victories in China, Comrade Nozaka was the cheeriest fellow in all Japan. Asked...