Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Communist rebellion erupted in Tonkin's Red River delta four years ago, the French relied on a web of 900 funny little Beau Geste forts built of bricks, mud and logs. This winter, Chinese Comrade Mao Tse-tung gave Indo-Chinese Comrade Ho Chi Minh bazookas, mortars and artillery, which blasted many of the French forts to rubble. Only the dynamic leadership of newly arrived General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny and hastily shipped U.S. arms hurled Ho back...
...Nationalist friends found her changed. She had embraced a new cause: Communism. She became friends with Mao Tse-tung and other top Reds. Her letters from within Red China to her father in Seattle grew more & more shrill in their denunciation of U.S. policies. Last May she rejected her father's plea that she come back to the U.S.: "Whenever I hear from any of my progressive friends it's the same story. Persecution, false accusations, rigged juries, illegal court decisions . . . How can you want me to return to such a life? It would be like returning...
...Made it clear that Mao could not be weaned away from Moscow...
...surrounded each moment with infectious attitudes from the ruling class and their culture ... We must, as Mao Tse-tung has pointed out, wash our hands several times each day. It was in its departure from socialist realism, with all its ironical possibilities, that the Piggie story laid itself open to the adoption of ruling-class snobbery about pig meat...
...Mao Tse-tung...