Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last time the Russians and Chinese had got together, including the Number Ones of both countries, Stalin and Mao, their talk had lasted an unexpected two months. The experts took this delay to mean that there was some rift between the two. The actual result of their conferring was not felt until 4½ months later. Then the Korean war began...
...Chinese civil war was pulled off in November 1949 at Hong Kong's airfield, where 82 Nationalist transport planes had been flown in to presumed safety. Subverted by agents, most of their Chinese crews defected to the Reds. They grabbed eleven of the planes and took off for Mao's mainland. Hong Kong authorities announced that British recognition of the Communist government-then expected momentarily-would automatically give the Reds possession of the remaining 71 planes by right of inheritance. It was strange logic, explainable only by Hong Kong's greedy haste to make friends with Mao...
...Mao Tse-tung's Chinese Communist hunting ground, businessmen are known as "tigers." They are fair game at all seasons for bloodthirsty bureaucrats, who have orders to fill the party's war chest from the "illgotten wealth" of the rich. Last week the Red People's government announced the "successful conclusion" of the biggest tiger hunt since the Soviet Union exterminated the kulaks...
...ready to believe that Washington is aching to plunge into World War III. Britain's government-Labor or Tory-has been lax about telling Britons the facts of life in Korea, has kept alive the notion that the best way to peace is to be nice to Mao Tse-tung. Britain's newspapers have treated the Korean fighting as a dull, disagreeable affair worth only a few sticks of type. The House of Commons debate was marked by ignorant assertions that went unchallenged-such as that the U.S. is training Chiang Kaishek's troops in Korea itself...
...Alexander thinks an armistice unlikely. He passed on the opinion of Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida: Mao Tse-tung has no wish to recall his veterans to China, where many would probably desert...