Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Says Baker: "This active market for American publications in Shanghai points up the fact that in the Orient, the war of ideas and words is a real war. Certainly the Chinese Communists recognize this. In many Southeast Asian countries the Red Star and Mao Tse-tung's face are among the most familiar sights; bookstores overflow with Communist propaganda produced locally or imported from Russia, China and Vietminh. In areas where literacy rates are generally very low the Communists have accepted the great truth that the spoken word, the whispering campaign and the picture cartoon are far more potent...
Behind the statements was the exquisite and unconcealed anxiety of U.S. leaders over the world crisis, their dread of a winter campaign in Korea, their ignorance of Communist China's reason for plunging into Korea, their bafflement over what Mao Tse-tung would do next. It was at Mao, chiefly, that they talked...
...Communist China, by not quite guaranteeing Formosa, the State Department had deliberately encouraged Red China's hopes that, if it stayed out of the Korean war, the U.S. would go along with recognition and withdraw protection from Formosa. By sending his troops across the Yalu, China's Mao Tse-tung could be simply pressing for a bargain that had been dangled in front...
...political front the Western powers seemed to be doing just about what Communist China wanted. Last week British Delegate Sir Gladwyn Jebb proposed that the U.N. Security Council invite Mao Tse-tung's government to send representatives to the forthcoming U.N. discussion of General MacArthur's report on Chinese intervention in Korea (TIME, Nov. 13). U.S. Delegate Warren Austin argued that since Communist China was the aggressor the invitation should be called a "summons." Snapped Russia's Jacob Malik: "When a colonial power speaks to a colonial slave it may 'summon...
...Mao Tse-tung's government reacted to the U.N. concessions as Communist governments usually react to any signs of weakness. From Chinese Communist Foreign Minister Chou En-lai came a stiff message refusing the U.N. invitation to send delegates to discuss Chinese intervention in Korea. But, in answer to a previous Security Council invitation, Chou agreed to send delegates to discuss what Chou called U.S. "aggression on Formosa." Besides discussing Formosa, Chou suggested, his delegates ought to be given a chance to accuse the U.S. of "armed intervention" in Korea...