Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Even without a war to fight, Mao is utterly dependent on Soviet Russia for industrial products to run his country-for the materials, tools and technical skills to begin developing the industrial potential he needs to complete his revolution...
...Ideologically, Peking and Moscow are blood brothers. Of all the Kremlin's allies, Mao, to judge by his own behavior, should be the last to flinch at cruelties, big lies or broken promises...
...Sino-Soviet border stretches for some 5,000 miles along the northern and western edges of China. In partnership, it needs no policing. If he tried to break with Russia, fight in Korea, hold on to Manchuria, and hold off a revived Nationalist China, Mao would in effect be turning his borders with Russia into a suicidal second front...
Sources of friction undoubtedly exist between Malenkov and Mao. Does Malenkov dare let Mao develop industrial independence? How hard is Moscow squeezing Peking economically to pay for its military help? Who keeps Manchuria? These sources of friction now engage the attention of Washington's psychological warriors. They also engage the minds of many who think that Mao will become a Tito if only the West is gentle with him. "Imagine," editorialized London's New Statesman and Nation last week, "that the Chinese Communists were given their rightful seat on the Security Council . . . Then the cement that holds...
...Mao finds it difficult to get along with Malenkov & Co., then perhaps the course for the West is to make his life with Malenkov not easier, but even more difficult. This was the kind of debate stirring in Washington, London and elsewhere last week. The throes of change from Stalin to pudgy Premier Malenkov would open fresh opportunities, exploitable fissures for the West. Where they would come, what they would be, how they could be breached-these were questions that would beguile, harass and test both worlds, the captive and the free, for a long time to come...