Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Mao Tse-tung's armies were overrunning China in 1946 and 1947, the value of the Chinese dollar plummeted overnight. In came a steady stream of cables asking, 'What do we price the magazine at today?' Originally, TIME in China cost 150 Chinese dollars (30? U.S.), but with the sharp devaluation of the coin, TIME was soon going for 30,000 dollars a copy and higher." Current price of TIME on Formosa: five Taiwan dollars...
Giap has always fought by the classic Mao Tse-tung doctrine of Asian war: "Never fight unless victory is certain"; he must also synchronize with Peking and Geneva. But Giap has perhaps three clear weeks, and apprehensive French eyes are already turning towards a rubble-dust town called Phuly, 40 miles south of Hanoi, and the most vulnerable spot in the Delta. Giap has already eroded eleven of Phuly's twelve outlying defense posts; he has the twelfth under harassment; and from now on, his possibilities are a succession of dangerous "ifs." If Giap attacks Phuly, if he gets...
...which merely balanced countries of opposite tendencies would be impotent, as the Korean commission had shown, and "being impotent is not the same as being neutral." To Chou En-lai's claim that Communist countries are as neutral as can be, Bidault whipped out a 1940 quotation from Mao Tse-tung: "From now on, the word 'neutrality' is only good to deceive the people...
...truck on which they traveled was so overcrowded that they rode atop the driver's cab. At that time, Chou-as well as the other Chinese Communist leaders-wore peasant garb and espoused poverty. Chou was very friendly; Mao Tse-tung even asked my husband to come back and organize a Y.M.C.A. in Yenan. Both, however, told my husband that no Christian could join the Chinese Communist Party...
Speaking in Dunster Junior Common Room, Wedemeyer characterized Mao and Chou as men with "selfish, sinister motives." Neither of them is working for the Chinese people, he asserted...