Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British journalist just returned from Peking reported: "The war in Korea . . . is already somewhat of a surprise to the Chinese." Hospitals in Manchuria, he added, could not take care of the great number of casualties. Mao Tse-tung and other Red Chinese strategists, who like to read the maxims of Sun-tzu, the ancient (500 B.C.) Chinese Clausewitz, now found themselves up against a field strategy similar to the one that had helped bring down Europe's great 19th Century aggressor...
...Chinese Communist reporter last week dropped in at Mao Tse-tung's boyhood village home in Hunan province. "As I visited the rooms where our beloved leader spent the years of his boyhood," he wrote, "I encountered many of his old acquaintances. Chou Pu-hsun, a schoolmate of Mao's, asked me to convey his regards, and said: 'How nice it would be if I could see Chairman Mao once again...
...week for regards to Red China's dictator. His senior partner in Moscow wired him "heartfelt greetings." Mao's response to Joseph Stalin was "heartfelt thanks." Thus the top comrades of the Moscow-Peking axis celebrated the first anniversary of their Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance...
...both Red capitals there was festive wining & dining. Mao himself was not reported present at any public show. Rumors: 1) he was on his way to Moscow, 2) he was in Moscow, 3) he had had a heart attack. But Mao's propagandists spoke up for him. They claimed huge economic gains in the year of Axis solidarity: coal extraction up 30%, steel production above China's prewar 1936 level. They added an unconsciously ironical boast: "The poor Chinese masses today are able to enjoy a similar kind of cultural life as that of the Soviet Union...
...Yenching returned to Peking, began turning out scholars, teachers, ministers and businessmen as before. But in 30 years, Yen-ching had also been turning out other alumni-students who, in the tolerant air of Yenching, had plunked for Communism. Such Yenching alumni now hold high posts in Mao Tse-tung's foreign ministry and his NKVD. They represent a philosophy that has no room for the Yenching idea...