Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that is not so. He is just a strong leader. Never consider in China that it is exactly the same as in United States. People vote, but they do not always know what is right. A strong leader is what they need, but he is not a dictator like Mao. All the people vote...
...nearby, free Hong Kong, which is a good barometer of Mao's power and popularity, there was hardly any show of Communist colors on Oct. 1, third anniversary of Red China's founding. But ten days later, on the Double Tenth-the 41 st birthday of the Chinese Republic-100,000 Nationalist flags went up over the slum huts, shops, taxis, buses, junks and offices of Hong Kong's Chinese, in the biggest spontaneous display of pro-Nationalist sentiment since China fell...
...Stalin himself gave a state dinner in the Kremlin for Red China's visiting Premier. The Chinese reciprocated with a banquet in the grand ballroom of the Metropole Hotel; their thousand guests sat at 50 tables, and Chou moved about, gaily drinking to the health of Stalin and Mao Tse-tung. Peking's press and radio hailed the Moscow communiqués of the Sino-Soviet talks as proof of an "impregnable alliance...
...Moscow's chief conditions for a peace treaty with Japan: 1) Red China must be recognized; 2) Formosa must be handed over to Mao Tse-tung; 3) Japan must throw out "foreign" (i.e., U.S.) troops...
...loan. The $300 million, to be spent over five years, which Stalin promised Mao Tse-tung 2½ years ago, is evidently not enough to carry...