Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chiang's offer to send 33,000 troops to Korea, where they might have come in handy last week. Washington's policy was directed by the fear that any action strengthening Chiang would bring the Chinese Communists into the Korean war and by the belief that appeasing Mao would keep them...
When Douglas MacArthur went to Formosa in August, the dismay of the U.S. State Department was audible all the way to Mao's palace. When MacArthur decided to warn publicly against the loss of Formosa, against "those who in the past propagandized . . . defeatism and appeasement in the Pacific," he was silenced by presidential command. By last week the net result of the U.S. action on Formosa had been to suspend the Nationalist sea-air blockade and thereby to open the ports of Red China for copper, oil and armaments from the West...
...Mao was not appeased. He struck on Oct. 26, and when the U.N., the U.S. and the British tried further appeasement, Mao flung back taunts and prepared for his great effort...
...Mao's army has the immediate advantage of numbers. In the year since the conquest of China, Mao has built up his forces steadily. They are 2,500,000 strong, divided into four huge field armies. Their rigidly enforced discipline is the marvel of China. They are intensively trained by vigilant officers, intensively indoctrinated by even more vigilant political commissars. The best is Lin Piao's army; it overran Manchuria and North China, now leads the assault in Korea...
...Army Comes First. Stalin has supplied Mao with arms as well as thousands of Russian advisers. The Chinese Red air force counts some 500 planes, including MIG-15 Soviet jet fighters. Behind the Chinese horde stands the full military, diplomatic and propaganda might of Russia. Red Russia and Red China are formally allied by treaties signed in Moscow last February by Mao and Stalin. Their actual bonds are closer: identity of aim and lifelong Communist discipline...