Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deep within Peking's Forbidden City, beneath lacquered ceilings, Mao Tse-tung last week received the onetime Prime Minister of Great Britain, Clement Attlee, and the Labor Party delegation to Red China. It was the first significant audience Mao had granted Westerners since he conquered vast China...
Smiling, his broad peasant's face edged with long black hair, Mao came forward to shake hands with each member of the Laborite delegation; he inquired courteously after their health, and concerned himself whether or not they were enjoying their visit. Amid the City's glaze work and its splendid vases, cups of fragrant tea were served. Then Mao, flanked by the party's chief theoretician, Liu Shao-chi, and by Premier Chou Enlai, began to speak. Before them in a hall where Chinese emperors once received their vassals, Clement Attlee and his Britons settled back into...
...Attlee & Co. were graciously guided along Peking's streets, past glowering portraits of Mao Tse-tung, Malenkov. Stalin and Molotov, through the famed Gate of Heavenly Peace into the old Forbidden City. They visited a model jail, well stocked with some 3,600 political prisoners, where they were told by a jailer that corporal punishment was forbidden, and "It is not permitted even to scold a prisoner...
...Attlee and Mr. Bevan are not likely to get a close look at Mao's now enormous army. But they might find time to glance at the People's Daily leading article of July 24th, which emphasised that modern armed forces could not be built up without heavy industries, and to reflect on the wisdom of meeting all Peking's demands for British heavy machinery. They will doubtless hear much of the claim, advanced a few weeks ago by the Chinese trade mission to Britain, that ?100 million worth of trade could be done between...
...Chief Chu Teh, in his Army Day speech last week, promised that Formosa will soon be liberated. The Labour leaders can read for themselves that under the new Peking constitution the millions of Chinese in Siam, Burma, Indonesia and Malaya, "neglected" by earlier governments, will now be "protected" by Mao Tse-tung's regime. This hardly squares with Chou En-lai's simultaneous protestations to the Burmese and Indian prime ministers about peaceful co-existence and noninterference...