Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress. Led off by Premier Chou En-lai (TIME, July 8), Peking's Marxist mandarins popped up, one by one, to assure the pseudo Parliament that the nation was in splendid shape. Then, one by one, they cited statistics demonstrating that the best-laid plans of Mao's men have gone agley...
...agricultural tax," Red China last year suffered its first budget deficit-about $750 million. Next came Vice Premier Po Ipo, with the bad news that the 1956 crop failure, not only the worst since the Reds took over but the "worst in decades" (TIME, May 13), had gummed up Mao's entire industrialization program...
...that instant the reader feels a secret sympathy for Gerald's decision to take his chances with the Reds: better Mao than Mom. By story's end, Mom buries Baba (forgetting that Father is quite as stately a name as Mother), and is left palpitating on a significantly empty stage...
...Ominous Word. Why all this airing of trouble and simulated display of tolerance? Even in the bowdlerized official version of Mao's major "secret" speech, the ominously evocative word "Hungary" cropped up with a frequency which suggested it was much on the chairman's mind. Indicative of Mao's fears was his none-too-veiled reference to popular resistance to Chinese rule in Tibet: "Because conditions in Tibet are not ripe, democratic reforms have not yet been carried out there...
...fear of the counterrevolution into the lower levels of their own bureaucracy; even, in the case of General Lung's anti-Russian blast, to make a point which the government agrees with but cannot officially accept. But underscoring them all is one fact, ominous to Communists everywhere: Mao noted that in Hungary "the party simply disappeared in a matter of a few days," because it had no popular roots...