Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that it was too late for the U.S. to lock the China stable, Communists were explaining more or less frankly how they had stolen the horse. During the '30s and '40s they had fraudulently advertised Mao Tse-tung and his Chinese Communists as being harmless agrarian reformers -and liberals at home and abroad had rushed for the Red bandwagon. Last week the U.S. Communist Party monthly Political Affairs revealed what Mao himself really thought about liberals; from the July 7 Bombay (India) weekly Crossroads it reprinted an English translation of a little essay Mao had written...
...Liberalism in collective organizations is extremely harmful," wrote Mao. "It weakens solidarity, loosens relations, slows down work, diversifies opinions, deprives the revolutionary camp of its right organization and discipline. Liberalism, therefore, is definitely a pernicious tendency...
...Mao also criticized liberals on the ground that they are too tolerant. They do not, said he, denounce or report the "obvious misdeeds of acquaintances, relatives, schoolmates, intimate friends, loved ones . . ." Furthermore, the liberal Communist is to be condemned for "forgetting he is a Communist Party member and lowering himself to the level of the ordinary folk...
...every kind of wigwag and smoke signal in the language of diplomacy, the Administration seemed to be trying last week to tell Chinese Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung that he had nothing to worry about from the U.S. The policymakers were convinced that the U.N. forces would win in Korea if Chinese or Russian Communists didn't butt in, and apparently they hoped that a little cajoling might keep them out. Whatever their reasoning, their pronouncements sounded like an attempt at appeasement...
...catch Mao's ear, Harry Truman chose to talk mostly about Formosa-instead of Korea. The Chinese Communists had protested belligerently to the United Nations about the "aggressive" U.S. Seventh Fleet lying in the Formosan straits. Said the President at his press conference last week: of course, the Seventh Fleet would be pulled out as soon as the Korean war was over. In English or in Mandarin this seemed to mean: stay out of Korea, fellows, and when the ruckus there is all over, Formosa will be left out in the open, where you can grab...