Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...themselves in advance to the fact that during their tour they will be photographed, filmed, recorded for radio, and exhaustively written up by the worldwide Communist "disinformation" net work; that their simplest expressions of thanks to their hosts will be represented as prostrations before the might and glory of Mao Tse-tung's regime; and that if they venture to comment unfavourably on anything they see, no breath of that criticism will reach the millions behind the iron curtain. They presumably think this is a price worth paying in order to see Peking's peepshow...
...Mao Tse-tung...
...Attlee said. "However, he is getting an old man now* and he commands aging forces. I think it is time that they, the leaders, were pensioned off, and I believe the mass of the rank and file would be glad to return to China." Attlee dismissed any suggestion that Mao Tse-tung's China was "a mere tool" of Soviet Russia: "When one is in a difficulty like that, one is apt to seek the nearest help. The U.S. revolution was very glad of the help of Republican France, though no one suggests that Washington and Jefferson approved...
...effective attempt to counterbalance the active (100 members) Marxist Chinese Students Association at the University of Rangoon. In Indonesia the problem is much the same. There are some 100 Chinese schools in the country, and many of these show their sympathies by displaying huge portraits of Stalin and Mao Tse-tung. Since university facilities are limited, Indonesia provides a special opportunity for Communism: in 1952, for instance, 200 Chinese students, unable to get into an Indonesian university, accepted invitations to the campuses of Red China...
Wearing sweet-smelling jasmine and a gay sarong, a Burmese beauty queen welcomed Chou En-lai to Rangoon last week, on the second stage of his triumphal swing around Asia. Thousands of well-organized Chinese flourished pictures of Mao Tse-tung, chanted Communist slogans and scattered rose petals as Chou drove into town from the airport. But fewer than 500 Burmese bothered to line the street, and it seemed that Rangoon, 1,100 miles nearer Dienbienphu than India's New Delhi, was not quite so enthusiastic about its Red China visitor...