Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last June, before the beginning of the war in Korea, documents captured by the French convinced them that Ho was about to receive extensive aid from Communist China's Mao Tse-tung. Mao, the French said, was training thousands of picked rebel Viet Minh troops in China and was equipping Ho's forces with heavy weapons. The Ho-Mao objective: the Red River delta. The time: after the summer monsoon and before the November rice harvest...
...shabby monument to the policy of "containing Communism" by supporting anybody who opposes it. These several hundred thousand troops living partially on U. S. doles are a sad commentary on the shortsightedness of American diplomacy, which backed the politics of Chiang Kai-Shek against the reforms of the Mao-Tse Tung...
...Dear Mao Tse-tung," the letter began, "I am writing to you as one farmer to another. As farmers we are both interested in a world at peace . . . Unless the new China is interested in joining with the U.S.S.R. in an insane drive toward world conquest, it is high time that she consider the fundamentals of a peaceful understanding with...
...letter went off airmail last week to ex-farmer Mao, case-hardened Communist boss of Red China-signed by Henry Wallace, ex-Vice President of the U.S., ex-leader of the Communist-line Progressive Party, now a repentant chicken-and-strawberry farmer with headquarters in South Salem...
...While Mao was laying these harsh strictures on the wobblers among his followers, "liberals" in the U.S. were busily tearing down Mao's main enemy, Chiang Kaishek, on the ground that Chiang was anti-liberal and contemptuous of the "ordinary folk" of China...