Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only man since Stalin himself to achieve a great revolution, Mao now ranks ideologically as the world's No. 1 Red-and is probably quite conscious of it. Even to Stalin, he was more the strong-minded disciple than the servant. To Malenkov, the hothouse-bred, second-generation Soviet man, he owes no personal allegiance, no ideological debt. As if to underline his sense of independence, Mao did not go to Moscow for Joe Stalin's funeral, instead sent a delegation under his Premier and Foreign Minister Chou Enlai. At the first news of Stalin's death...
...Comrade Stalin's Behest." Facing East, Georgy Malenkov could not be so sure of his biggest and most important ally-Mao Tse-tung, conqueror of China...
...Mao's newspapers and radio orators bathed the country in praise of Stalin and his works, but the Chinese Reds handled Malenkov's succession with almost cold reserve, were slow to slip into anything resembling a real buildup of the new Kremlin boss. In a long panegyric to the late Stalin, Mao's only reference to Stalin's successor was: "We fully believe the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet government, headed by Comrade Malenkov, will definitely be able to follow Comrade Stalin's behest to drive forward...
...Kremlin rulers took extraordinary pains to please Mao Tse-tung. His funeral delegation got places of honor. In the orations and proclamations, the other "People's Republics" were lumped together, but Mao's was always singled out first for praise. Malenkov assigned a key man as new ambassador to Peking-Vasily Kuznetsov, newly named a deputy foreign minister, and member of last fall's shortlived, 36-man Soviet Presidium. A bright star of Malenkov's generation (52) who headed the Soviet trade-union movement until recently, Kuznetsov once punched a time clock at Ford...
...Will or Way. Moscow's pampering of Mao, and Peking's prudence, set commentators to talking again along their favorite line-Titoism. But in China too, the facts are against such a development. Items...