Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western sectors. On the big day, the Communist youngsters were awakened by buglers before dawn. By 7 they had begun to march down Unter den Linden toward the Lustgarten. The route of march was plastered with flags and big propaganda posters, depicting the standard Russian heroes (Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung) and evil-looking "dollar imperialists." One poster showed a trio of capitalist exploiters in Edwardian garb, complete with grey toppers. With the kids marched 10,000 grim-faced "Special Squads" of the People's Police, deeply tanned, obviously well trained-the 1950 version of Adolf Hitler...
...more than three years this land, in prewar times the rich French colony of Indo-China, has been suffering, on a lesser scale, the ruinous kind of civil war which won China for Communism. The Mao Tse-tung of the Indo-Chinese is a frail, but enduring comrade, who looks like a shriveled wizard; his nom de guerre is Ho Chi Minh (or One Who Shines). Chiang Kai-shek has no counterpart in Indo-China. The initial brunt of the Red attack has been borne by French soldiers. Meanwhile, the job of rallying native anti-Communist forces falls mainly...
Doyle reported Shanghai's fall to Communism, staying on longer than most other U.S. newsmen. Writing about China's new boss, Mao Tse-tung (LIFE, Jan. 23) he drew the moral of the story: "In the cities and the areas of China which they held, Chiang's forces became identified with defeat, despair and disorder. The will to resist waned and, by this curious conspiracy of circumstances, revolutionary Communism came to be associated with-of all things-order and the promise of peace. This was the process, sped by the age-old agonies of Asia...
...best course for the U.S. to follow in the Far East. After restating his opposition to Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Nationalists, he urged one of two courses: 1) encourage Chinese nationalism even though it be Communist nationalism, in the hope of making a Tito out of Mao or preferably 2) "encourage in every possible way conditions that will make possible the survival of a so-called third force, a democratic group within China...
Lattimore's plausible argument, which he expounded in his writings in recent years, proposed that the U.S. be nice to Chinese Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung in order to encourage him to become an Asian Tito; the U.S., suggested Lattimore, was too weak to organize an anti-Russian front in the Far East and therefore should encourage "third countries," dependent neither on Russia nor on the U.S., but open to friendly U.S. influence...