Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Service case had been around Washington a long time before Acheson got to it. One spring day in 1945, Service, one of the band of Foreign Service "China hands" who urged the U.S. during World War II to dump the Chinese Nationalists and plump for Communist Mao Tse-tung, was discovered by the FBI in the hotel room of Philip Jaffe. editor of the pro-Chinese Communist magazine Amerasia. The FBI had earlier raided Amerasia's offices, found there about 40 of Service's State Department documents, which he had stamped "Secret" or "Confidential." Service was arrested along...
...that everyone-especially the Communist leaders of Eastern Europe-had become disturbed and confused about Mao Tse-tung's "secret" speeches (TIME, May 27, June 24), Red China decided to publish one of them to get the European comrades off the hook. "The author," noted the New China News Agency gravely, "has gone over the text and made certain additions." Among the additions, as a sop to Moscow, was the phrase, "We do not think other countries must follow the Chinese way." And among the tactful deletions was Mao's admission that the Reds had liquidated...
Fashion's Changes. Watered down as it was, Mao's speech remained a cry of warning against the danger of the Marxist rigidity that led to revolt in Hungary. Above all, it made clear that what Mao called the "contradictions" in Chinese Communist society were actually symptoms of widespread disaffection. Items...
...hundred-flowers role, Mao set up his methods as sounder than Moscow's; but his rhetoric required a little deflowering. Persuasion may have a soothing sound, but in Mao's thinking, only one side is open to persuasion, after which the persuaded must accept "unity." If the terror is over in Red China (as Western experts largely agree), it has been followed by a form of persuasion known as "reform through labor." Chou En-lai declared recently: "More than 80% of criminals detained have been given work in agriculture or industry," i.e., as slave labor...
...Mao himself, in his secret speech, acknowledged that China's food situation is desperate, and that its population must be held down. And at the very moment he was celebrating "beneficial little strikes." he made it clear in one sentence that nothing could be done about just grievances. "We do not have at present enough funds to increase the pay." said Mao, "even for those who rightly claim more for their work." Let a hundred schools of thought contend about that...