Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nine years since Mao Tse-tung took ' power in Peking, China has become shrouded in a fog of ignorance almost as thick as in the days of Marco Polo. Three weeks ago, determined to separate fact from fiction, TIME correspondents in 13 bureaus around the world began a mass assault on the Bamboo Curtain. Their chief weapons: interviews with scores of latter-day Marco Polos ranging from British M.P.s to Argentine M.D.s, plus a mining of the exhaustive studies of Red China now being carried out in U.S. and British universities, and intelligence findings in many nations. Piece...
Among the traditional Chinese sayings Mao Tse-tung likes to quote is the one about a fool: "He lifted the rock only to crush his feet." Last week, in a rare display of defensiveness, Chairman Mao was busily reassuring his subjects that hehad not dropped the rocky island of Quemoy on his toes...
...only on alternate days, as if to show that if Red China could not take the islands, it could kill innocent people on them at will. "Some Communists may not yet understand this," conceded a government directive which Western experts thought bore the markings of having been written by Mao himself. But, added the directive. "You will understand after a while, comrades...
...make sure the comrades did understand. China's propaganda mills last week ground out a selected anthology of Mao's speeches and writings over the past 18 years entitled, "Imperialists and All Reactionaries Are Paper Tigers." Its gist: U.S. military superiority over Red China will ultimately prove as transient as did that of the Japanese and the Nationalist Chinese...
Nowhere in Mao's reflections was there any direct reference to Quemoy, but the thousands of "study groups" convened to discuss the new publication were quick to get the point. "Under the brilliant leadership of Chairman Mao," proclaimed a military school teacher, "we have gone from victory to victory. So long as we hold aloft the Red banner of Chairman Mao in ideology, we shall always triumph." In other words: don't ask questions; Mao has always been right before, and he must have something up his sleeve this time...