Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the armies of Mao Tse Tung first swept down from the north of China, there was a sentiment akin to satisfaction in many non-Communist, liberal circles. Favored among the terms describing the revolution were "agrarian reform" and "the real will of the Chinese people." Supposedly, the Chinese communists were fairly decent reformers who were completing China's fight against Japanese domination by ending the joint rule of Chaing Kai-Shek and corruption...
...expert on the Far East, having just returned from a year in the Orient, Fairbank held little hope for any basic agreement with Mao, or admission of China into the United Nations at the present time...
...China turned to the West for help. Now Communists, schooled in Moscow, rule China. The Kremlin has tried to keep them from any contact with us. An example of this was the arrest of our consul in Mukden in 1947. England and the United States desired to recognize Mao, but this Russian-inspired incident alienated us, as the Kremlin planned," he continued...
Fairbank stated that the American public would not accept any agreement with Mao until he had met two basic conditions. "Mao must remove his troops from North Korea, and allow unification of Korea on the U.N. Basis...
...indicated these actions are unlikely, as they entail too much "loss of face" for the Chinese. "The need to restore face will force Mao to try for some gain, such as the Security Council seat...