Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heart to Heart. These differences are "non-antagonistic," said Mao, and the "just but frustrated desires of the people" must be listened to and taken seriously...
Along the ever-humming grapevines of the Communist world and through the chancelleries of the West flashed an electrifying report: just a year after Khrushchev's historic attack on Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, too, had made a "secret" speech, in fact two of them. The speeches could not match Khrushchev's in sensation, but the stir that they are making in Communist lands (Westerners have yet to get a full text) shows that if Mao is in fact bidding for "ideological equality" with Moscow, he will have eager supporters in the satellites, whose leaders are anxious...
From what has leaked out of Mao's speech, the 63-year-old Chinese ruler, in a long, theoretical harangue to 800 ideological commandos, denied two fundamental propositions of Soviet ideology: 1) that even in a Communist state the class struggle must continue until the day when a completely Socialist society is established (Stalin, justifying his bloody purges in the '30s, said that the struggle must in fact get increasingly violent, as enemies of the people grow more desperate); 2) that there can be no real conflict in a Communist state between the people and their rulers, since...
...support Minister Chang's ruling, propaganda mills began grinding out touching stones of Chairman Mao Tse-tung's own hard and difficult struggle as a young revolutionary, much as a capitalist uncle might rebuke a wastrel nephew with stories of his own five-mile hikes through the snow to the little red schoolhouse. Samples: "Chairman Mao's socks were full of holes, his clothes made of rough texture. He ate only two meals of rice and cabbage daily. His comrades urged him to eat more. Chairman Mao would not allow...
...results of the London Conference cannot be meaningful, however, unless the free world can negotiate similar agreements with Mao Tse-Tung. Without aerial inspection plans for Red China, the United States cannot be free of the fear of surprise attack. Even though Secretary Dulles does not officially recognize the existence of Mao's government, he is certainly aware that the Chinese mainland constitutes an excellent location for missile and airbase sites. Even if Stassen could obtain open skies agreements from the Soviet Union and all its Eastern European satellites, his job would not be complete...