Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yankee, Go Home! Just when the Red efforts seemed to be flagging, Communist China leaped in last week to heat things up. At first, Peking's propaganda line on Laos had been curiously restrained-presumably because Chairman Mao Tse-tung and all the top leaders have been away from Peking, hashing over their domestic difficulties at a secret conclave in the provinces. (Best guess as to their meeting place: the northwestern Chinese city of Sian, which fortnight ago received an otherwise inexplicable visit from North Viet Nam's goat-bearded Ho Chi Minh.) Last week...
...minimum Communist ambition may be to frighten Phoui into accepting return of the international control commission and readmitting the Laotian Reds into his government. But this seemed hardly worth a fuss that might queer Khrushchev's trip to the U.S.-unless, as some British diplomats speculate, it was Mao's way of reminding Khrushchev that Red China does not want any thaw in U.S.-Russian relations. The U.S. State Department, however, implicitly accused Moscow of complicity in the Laos invasion (after all, Ho Chi Minh had just been in Moscow...
Washington is resigned to the fact that whenever the East-West conflict in Europe and the Middle East temporarily eases up, trouble breaks out in Asia. But whether or not the trouble was Mao's doing alone, or Moscow's too, there was nothing haphazard about it. When joined with Peking's saber rattling against India (see below), it became clear that Red China was in the mood to make trouble. Peking may hesitate to start up Quemoy again (having been thrown off last time), it may fear new hostilities in Korea, but it is plainly determined...
...speak of greatness in a man is not to say that he is always correct." What lent fascination to this seemingly innocuous sentence from Peking's New China SemiMonthly was the fact that the Chinese word it used for "greatness" is one the Reds usually reserve for Mao Tse-tung. With customary bafflegab. Peking was publicly admitting that Chairman Mao has been forced into a humiliating retreat by the stubbornness of "The Old Hundred Names"-Red China's faceless peasant masses...
Fifteen months ago, when Mao first began to herd his subjects into the slavery of agricultural communes (TIME, Oct. 20), Red China's bosses joyfully proclaimed that the Marxist millennium was at hand. "We were told," said one refugee who made it to freedom in Hong Kong. "that once the commune got under way it would provide free meals for all. pay wages to all, take care of young and old and bring to the people many other blessings." But within weeks the food stocks that the government had hoarded in order to get the communes...