Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist P.W.s. Apparently Chou himself did not expect his peace offer to be taken seriously, for he went on: "If the new American administration . . . intends to enlarge and extend the Korean war, we are thoroughly prepared to fight it out with the aggressors to the last." To which Mao Tse-tung added: "For any amount of years...
...year (1949), his curriculum ranged from semi-starvation to marching till his feet blistered, from writing whoppers as a "People's Correspondent" for the New China News Agency, to a minor post with the Ministry of Propaganda - while inwardly he fought to keep Mao Tse-tung and gang from using his brain as a Marxist sewage disposal dump...
...Communist General Lin Piao, Mao's No. 1 man, came to address the group. "All you comrades came here for the Revolution, right...
...begin with, let us assume that Chiang will be as much of a nuisance to the Communists as Republicans think he can be. Presumably, Mao will want to demolish him and his troops, a task that will require battling the Seventh Fleet. By definition, this would involve the United States in a general war with China. If Mao is sufficiently threatened, he won't hesitate to bomb Japan, assault the U.S. Navy, and engulf Korea with as many more troops as he can spare...
There is also the possibility--we should say probability--that Chiang could exert all the force of a gnat against Mao. Kuomintang officials themselves have reckoned that preparations will take a year. But even Chiang's much discussed "commando raids," could do little damage unless supported by American forces. If anything, Eisenhower's order will thus have little significance save balming the torture minds of those who demand action--any action...