Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hanoi, the Viet Minh's red and yellow-starred flags hung from stores and warehouses, from shacks and villas, from cycle-taxis that darted along uncrowded boulevards. Portraits of Malenkov, Mao and Ho stared out from the stalls of the peddlers. At main intersections there were bamboo arches of triumph, decked with papier-mâché peace doves and slogans that proclaimed "INDEPENDENCE" or "PEACE" or "PRESIDENT HO FOR TEN THOUSAND YEARS." No exception, no dissent was permitted in Hanoi's show of joy; nobody forgot to display his enthusiasm, or was too lazy to bother...
...Nehru told a farewell press conference in Peking last week. He heatedly denied that his trip had revealed "serious differences" between him and the Chinese Communists, conceding only that "India's basic approach is somewhat different" from Red China's. At a farewell banquet, Nehru grandiloquently hailed Mao Tse-tung as "Great warrior! Great revolutionary! Great builder and consolidator!", pausing only to add: "May he now be a great peacemaker also...
...China acted sorry to have Nehru leave. "No sorrow as painful as that of parting," said Mao. Twenty thousand regimented schoolchildren cried: "Chinese and Indians are brothers, brothers!" Yet for Red China, the Peking conference had turned out to be an unexpected failure. Quoting eagerly from Nehru's own anti-Western statements, the Communists had tried to lure Nehru into an anti-Western collective security pact; Nehru had proved "not too enthusiastic." The conference, trumpeted in advance as a milestone of history, produced no final communique and only one scrap of agreement: Red China could run an airline into...
...long hours of private talk with Nehru, Mao Tse-tung and Chou showed no interest in granting Nehru his area of peace. Instead, Chou wanted to enlist him in a "joint declaration" that would pledge "protection" to Asia against Western interference...
...solemnize China's new status, India's Jawaharlal Nehru went northward to pay his court. As the leader of the world's second biggest nation (350 million), Nehru would call on Mao Tse-tung, the leader of the world's largest (600 million). With Russia, the third largest (210 million), they comprised nearly half of mankind. The significance was not lost on Nehru. His visit was a "world event in a historic sense," said he grandly, "one of the biggest events of the year and of the decade. All other things are trivial...