Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China war. Let the opponents of negotiations negotiate, he said, because they are tougher. But Mendès always insisted that Geneva was folly, that the only way to get peace was through direct negotiation with the Viet Minh. "Really, your policy is incomprehensible," he told Bidault. "You ask Mao to stop aid to Ho. Why should he make you this gift?" Mendès also suspected another motive behind Bidault's policy: Bidault's hope that the U.S. could be persuaded to do what the French alone could not do-maintain French illusory politique de grandeur...
...aggression pact with France and Belgium." The real difference between a Locarno pact then and now is that Locarno was a compact between men of good will-a pact with the democratic Weimar Republic of Germany, not with the Germany of Hitler. A Locarno pact now-with Malenkov and Mao-would be like a pact with Hitler. A promise to defend a wolf if he is attacked by the sheep means little to the wolf. And it just confuses the sheep about the real nature of the wolf...
Though many small-fry deviationists have crumpled before Mao Tse-tung's firing squads. Red China's masters in 30 years of party organization have yet to undergo a true Russian-style purge. Yet there were mighty stresses and strains in seizing and subduing a vast and unwieldy country of 600 million hungry people. Peking's first solution of the problem was to divide China into six administrative regions, all but one of them in the charge of a first-line army general. The six leaders were, in effect, local warlords bound together by Communist discipline...
...first hint that all was not going well between Mao and his military proconsuls came last February when Liu Shao-chi, the party theoretician and No. 2 in the hierarchy, warned: "Some of our high-ranking cadres . . . regard the region under their leadership as their individual inheritance or independent kingdom." Last week, after months of maneuvering, Peking abolished the six regional areas and substituted 26 provincial administrations, which Peking can more easily control. The six regional bosses gathered in the capital for reckoning and reassignment. Mao Tse-tung immediately appointed them to the People's Revolutionary Military Council, where...
...suffered the kind of humiliation that a century ago would have led Lord Palmerston to dispatch a gunboat. The top Communist brass snubbed him; their juniors let him cool his heels in anterooms. His mission consisted largely of trying to free Britons who had been clapped in jail by Mao Tse-tung, and trying to get compensation for British firms whose assets had been expropriated by the Reds. The Communists never bothered to send diplomatic representation to London...