Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korea with all the force it can safely commit to that action." Harry Truman offered no more. He sent out his press secretary to tell newsmen that U.S. policy is still the same; specifically, it still includes the "neutralization" of Formosa, which means that the U.S. Seventh Fleet keeps Mao from invading Formosa and keeps Chiang from raiding the mainland or resuming his coastal blockade...
...continued massive buildup of fresh Chinese Communist forces on the Korean front, presumably for another, greater Red offensive against the U.N. (see below). But in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), London and other non-Communist capitals, a lot of diplomats and pundits sounded as though MacArthur rather than Mao Tse-tung was really the warmonger...
Student Shen Yu-sheng: "Before liberation I read American pornographic periodicals, movie magazines and novels about psychological perverts . . . If it had not been for Chairman Mao and the Communist Party, I would either have sold my soul to the devil or taken my life...
Third Crossing. By this time, Mao Tse-tung had issued marching orders to his troops. On Oct. 26 Red troops crossed the Yalu River. On Dec. 31, they drove over the parallel on the heels of the U.N.'s retreating forces. Their proclaimed objective, in the words of Radio Peking: "To liberate Korea . . . and crush the aggression of the imperialists...
Chiang's Reformed Army. Many of the purge victims are intellectuals and former Nationalist officials who went over to the Communists two years ago in the hope that Mao Tse-tung would give them a "more liberal" government. The irony of their plight is that while the Communist government has been steadily disclosing itself to be a Communist government, Chiang Kai-shek's government on Formosa has made some progress toward 20th Century liberal polity...