Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tried to minimize its significance, the presence of Chou En-lai (pronounced roughly Joe 'N. Lie) at Geneva symbolized a hard reality. Communist China was determined enough to demand a major role in world affairs, strong enough to get it. In the brief span of four years, Mao Tse-tung and his coterie of Communists had found the means to stalemate the military forces of the world's greatest power on the battlefields of Korea. They had, after rushing to aggression's service in North Korea, replaced Russia as North Korea's occupier. They had been...
...China's Western friends. But what was relevant to the rest of the world last week was that China's Communists had been able to assemble the raw materials of power and put them to work. The main elements of that power: CJ United and dedicated leadership. Mao's hierarchy is welded together by more than 30 years' association. It has never had a purge comparable to Russia's."Never forget," said Chou En-lai to an American ten years ago, "that we Communists, like anyone else, will have our disagreements or irritations or schisms...
...more familiar talent-the ability to bob, weave and pirouette-was developed in party intrigues. He sided or seemed to side with one faction (e.g., Li Lisan, once the party boss) only to wind up in the end, unhurt and at the elbow of the ultimate winner, Mao Tse-tung, sometime librarian at Peking University. With his Whampoa training, Chou shared command of Mao's peasant armies with Chu Teh, the wily soldier whom Chou had the wisdom to recruit into the party in Germany in 1922. With his administrative deftness, Chou helped Mao lay the steely wires...
...America would be quick to enter the war, they thought, if Red China were to take a large-scale role in the fighting. Up to now, Mao Tsc-Tung's forces have limited themselves to giving supplies to the Vietminh troops...
...sweet it is to be in Chairman Mao's bosom...